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U.S. dream about Iran won’t be realized: Shamkhani POLITICS TEHRAN — Ali Sham- political and economic pressure through U.S. seeking deskkhani, secretary of the waging a “psychological warfare”. Supreme National Security Council, as- The top security official added that the sured on Tuesday that the U.S. dream enemy is making efforts to exert economic to limit Iran’s nuclear activities through pressure against the country in order to un- imposing sanctions will not be realized. dermine stability. To counter enemies and During a meeting with national TV man- solve the people’s problems, the top security agers, Shamkhani said that the hegemonic official suggested, it is necessary to use econom- to undermine system seeks to make Iran surrender to ic capacities and strengthen national unity.

Iran cracks down on opportunists

people’s trust See page 2 at cellphone market TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN – The In- ple not to be victim of opportunists who deskformation and Com- rip people off,” Mohammad Javad Azari munication Technology (ICT) Ministry Jahromi said. takes strong action to control cellphone As the Iranian rial plunged to a record prices at the market and cracks down on low against the U.S. dollar in the unofficial opportunists, the ICT minister told ILNA market many opportunists have took unfair on Monday. advantage of the chaotic conditions and “People are not defenseless in cellphone overcharged people for electronic devices, market and the government support peo- such as cellphones. 10

EU urges ceasefire in Yemen’s Hudaydah amid Saudi-led offensive The European Union has expressed “ex- The ministers also called on all sides of treme concern” over the deteriorating the conflict to cease fire in the besieged port humanitarian situation in war-battered city of Hudaydah, through which 70 percent Yemen, calling for a ceasefire in the port of food imports to Yemen are shipped.

Maryam Kamyab city of Hudaydah. “The EU will maintain its engagement In a statement on Monday, EU foreign with all parties to the conflict and stands ministers underlined their strong sup- ready to increase its action in Yemen, includ- port for a UN-led peace initiative to end ing in delivering humanitarian aid across the Saudi war against the impoverished the country and in mobilizing development nation, ruling out any military solution assistance to fund projects in crucial sectors,” Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ to the conflict. the statement read. 13 EDITORIAL Team Melli end World Cup campaign on a high note REPORT Mohammad Ghaderi Ramin Hossein Abadian By Seyed Zafar Mehdi in a high-voltage encounter is no mean feat. Iran sportswear giant Nike had refused to provide boots Tehran Times editor-in-chief Mehr News Agency TEHRAN - When Karim Ansarifard scored the performed exceptionally well in all three match- to the Iranian team, succumbing to pressure from @ghaderi62 Journalist last-gasp equalizer against Portugal; ecstatic, es they played in the first round. They defeated the U.S. government. The decision prompted a adrenaline-fueled scenes were witnessed at a spirited Moroccon team 1-0, went down 0-1 sharp backlash from football fans in Iran, who Tehran’s Azadi Stadium, where thousands of against the star-studded Spanish team, and drew saw it as an “insult to the Iranian nation”. Iran’s Aggressors are at young football fans had gathered to watch live against Portugal. coach Carlos Queiroz denounced the company and “Power struggle” feed of the match. A few minutes later when Me- When Iran routed Morocco in their first game of lodged a strong protest with FIFA, of course to peak of weakness hdi Taremi missed a close chance to edge past the tournament, people across the country poured no avail. Amid this entire hullabaloo, the Iranian expanded between Portugal, sending his shot into the side netting, into the streets at midnight to celebrate the win. Last team members were totally focused on the game, in full-scale war a hushed silence fell over the stadium. night when Iran held Portugal to a draw, people not allowing the controversy to distract them. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi Then it all boiled down to the result of Morocco again broke out in ecstatic jubilation; although their It would be safe to suggest that Iran achieved n 2015, to restore dictatorial rule to against Yemen versus Spain match. Much to the disappointment team’s run in the mega event had ended. the goal they had set for itself at this World Cup. Yemen as well as plunder the coun- of Iranian fans, Spain came from behind to score That shows tremendous maturity and mag- They had aimed to grab a few points, possibly a he Saudi-led coalition has launched try’s oil and gas and its natural wealth, an equalizer in injury time, which ended Iran’s nanimity of Iranian football fans, who truly love draw against Morocco or Portugal and a narrow I an extensive operation to occupy Saudi Arabia created a coalition of some slim chances of going through to the next round their game and believe in backing their side in loss against Spain. They ended the tournament the important and strategic port of of its regional and transatlantic allies, T of the World Cup 2018. fair weather and foul. As one of the posters widely with four points, defeated Morocco, drew with Al-Hudaydah in Yemen. In this operation, targeting Yemen which is the poorest Thus Iran’s remarkable World Cup 2018 cam- shared on social media read, ‘We (Iranians) have Portugal and went down fighting against Spain. the UAE plays a very important role. One Arab state. paign came to a screeching halt. Players were a big heart for a bigger dream’. It is important to They are out of the tournament, but they have of the goals of the country’s participation in Although the Saudis claimed that their visibly gutted and heartbroken but fans back continue chasing that big dream, despite seem- cemented places in the hearts of millions of football the three-year invasion on Yemen was for “Operation Decisive Storm” against the home were proud of Team Melli’s achievement. ingly insurmountable odds. fans across the world. They are already heroes the sake of dominating the Yemeni ports in defenseless Yemeni people could come To hold a formidable side like Portugal to a draw A week before the tournament, the American back home in Iran. 15 order to resolve its geopolitical weakness. to an end in less than a week, no major But in the great battle of Al-Hudaydah, goals have so far been met, assuming there the United States, Britain and France, were any clear goals besides destruction and even the Zionist regime are playing States behind Iranophobia seek to sell more arms in Middle East to begin with. important roles besides Saudi Arabia. That TEHRAN (MNA)— In an address to the UN important role in the Astana Process, which is in most cases, there are common denominators, However, the determination of the is why the war has become a small world Security Council on Monday, Iran’s ambassa- one of the most efficient processes to establish namely: foreign intervention, foreign interference, armed forces and the popular committees war. Despite a week has passed since the dor to the UN condemned states which spread peace and security in the Syrian Arab Republic foreign occupation or a combination of them. of Yemen, has been obvious. At the head beginning of the battle, the Yemeni revo- Iranophobia with the aim of selling more arms with the participation of Russian Federation, Even in very rare cases wherein a conflict has of them, Ansarallah, has proven to be the lutionaries have succeeded in defending in the region. Turkey and my country. internal roots, it has been manipulated, escalated main reason for the failure of the military their land against the aggressors. The following is the full text of the statement A comprehensive review of the situation in the and prolonged due to the illegal interference of incursions of the Saudis and their allies A Brief Report of the First by Gholamali Khoshroo: Middle East and North Africa (MENA) requires, regional powers or certain countries from the in Yemen. But of the main factors behind Week of the Battle in Al-Hudaydah I would like to thank the Russian presiden- first and foremost, an examination of its “root outside the region. the disaster in Yemen is the emergence On the first day of the war, an Emi- cy for organizing this debate and inviting my causes”. Such a review should also include the The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands and deepening of the divisions between rati ship was destroyed by Ansarollah in Delegation to participate. I also would like to performance of the Security Council in main- is undoubtedly the core and central to all conflicts Saudi Arabia and some members of the the Red Sea. According to the reports, warmly welcome His Excellency Mr. Sergey taining peace and security in this volatile region. in the MENA region. The Israeli occupation of coalition. 100 foreign troops have been killed in Vershinin, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs A deep analysis of all causes of conflicts and Palestinian land is the core and central to all After realizing the expansionist aims the wake of the collapse of the Emirati of the Russian Federation, and acknowledge his wars in MENA over the past decades proves that, conflicts in the Middle East. 2 of Saudi Arabia by the Emiratis in Yemen, ship in Yemen’s harbor of Al-Hudaydah. Abu Dhabi also took the same path to The Sputnik News Agency reported the seek power. killing of 12 U.S. soldiers, eight Zionist The first disputes between the two soldiers, 50 Emirati soldiers and 30 Sau- sides were for the support of Saudi and di soldiers in Al-Hudaydah battle, which Birds flying Emirati officials from mercenary ele- the Saudi-led coalition tried to hide and ments that the two sides did not agree on. censor for fear of the public reaction. On The UAE believed that the best person the other hand, the news sources close to over Emad to rule Yemen is Ali Abdullah Saleh, the the Yemeni fighters announced that they Yemeni dictator who was overthrown. had detained two French Special Forces al-Doleh The Saudis always believed that there on the ground during the operation. was no better option than Mansour Hadi Yemeni forces said that the coast guard Mosque in to return to Yemen. of the harbor of Al-Hudaydah stopped a Following these differences, a sharp French radar boat and arrested its pas- clash between Saudi mercenaries and sengers. During the past few days, reports Kermanshah the Emirate-backed forces occurred in have been released of the presence of Photo depicts a flock of birds flying over February last year. According to the latest French forces in the recent operations Emad al-Doleh Mosque, a 19th-centry reports, more than 200 mercenaries were of the Saudi-Emirati coalition in Yem- complex in Kermanshah, western Iran, killed on both sides during the conflict en’s harbor of Al-Hudaydah, which were on June 23, 2018. and many others wounded. denied by the French Defense Ministry. Graced with intricate brickwork, Saudi Arabia has not allowed the United But Le Figaro confirmed in a report that faience and stucco carvings, the mosque Arab Emirates to have much influence French Special Forces were involved in embraces four iwans (porticos), one in on the strikes in Yemen. Failure to fulfill the attack on the port of Al-Hudaydah. UAE objectives for domination of strategic

Farzad Menati each side of a square shaped court yard Ali al-Emad, a member of the Political facing each other. areas has angered Abu Dhabi especially. Bureau of the Ansarollah Movement, Visitors to the mosque can also revel This issues provoked the Emirates said that the number of the coalition in the nearby bazaar that is stretched authorities last year to restrain their Tasnim/ Tasnim/ captives on the western coast of Yemen along labyrinth alleys. presence and activities in the Saudi-led has reached 160. 7 coalition. 7 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y POLITICS JUNE 27, 2018 MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS FATF is a Top judge vows severe punishment colonial contract: for economic disruption grand ayatollah POLITICS TEHRAN — The Judici- top priority, saying the enemies are seeking POLITICS TEHRAN — Grand Ayatollah Naser Maka- deskary chief on Tuesday lashed to mount economic pressure on Iran and deskrem Shirazi has denounced the Financial out at those who are “disrupting the economy” cause trouble for the people. Action Task Force (FATF) as a “colonial contract” with the by funneling their huge assets into foreign According to Tasnim, the senior judge aim of infiltrating economies of the signatories, saying it is currency and gold market, threatening that acknowledged that the recent turbulence in in contradiction with Islamic laws. they will face “severe punishment” if their acts the gold, foreign currency, automobile and “It is surprising how some people have done such a dan- is recognized as “corruption on the earth”. housing market is partly due to a surge in gerous job,” the ayatollah said in reference to attempts to Asking police to identify these persons, total cash in the country, but described the implement the FATF, Fars reported. Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said these crisis as a psychological issue that is being It came days after Leader of the Islamic Revolution Aya- moves which agitate the market is a “treason engineered by the enemies. tollah Ali Khamenei criticized the FATF and said the parlia- against the system and the nation”. In comments in April, Leader of the Islamic ment should pass legislation to combat money laundering “We will not back down under any cir- Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said according to its own criteria. cumstances to deal with such persons and the enemies have resorted to economic war after we warn that this move which is disruption realizing the futility of military action against Iran. to the country’s economy carries severe “They have now focused on economic punishment,” the top judge said as some and cultural war, with the U.S. Treasury Larijani wants businesspersons closed their shops in protest Department working as the headquarters regional leaders to devaluation of national currency in the of the economic war on the Islamic Republic face of foreign currencies and a following establishment,” the Leader said, highlighting

Maryam Times / Kamyab Tehran to be optimistic disruption in the business market. the need for supporting producers and busi- about one another Amoli Larijani described economy as the nesses to deal with the enemy’s economic war. POLITICS TEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker deskAli Larijani has urged leaders of regional Iranian, Syrian diplomats hold talks in Tehran countries to be optimistic about each other to resolve con- POLITICS TEHRAN — Syrian Deputy Foreign Mekdad also met with Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior The two diplomats also discussed the works done by flicts, Fars reported. deskMinister Faisal Mekdad who traveled assistant to Zarif, discussing issues of mutual interest. the committee to rewrite Syria’s Constitution, which was Larijani made the remarks in a meeting with Iraq’s National to Tehran late Monday held talks with Iranian Foreign The meeting was held at the Iranian Foreign Ministry established by the Syrian National Dialogue Congress dur- Security Advisor Falih al Fayyadh in Tehran, where the two Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. as part of a new round of talks between Iranian and Syrian ing its meeting in Russia’s Sochi. sides discussed bilateral ties and regional developments. Zarif and Mekdad discussed a range of regional and political committees. They also reviewed discussions made during last week’s He also congratulated the Iraqi government on the recent international issues. The two sides also exchanged views Jaberi Ansari and Mekdad exchanged views on bi- Geneva meeting between UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan election and expressed the hope that “good outcomes” would on the latest field developments in Syria as well as settling lateral relations and the latest political and field devel- de Mistura and representatives of the guarantor states of come out of the election. the crisis in the country. opments in Syria. the Syria truce – Iran, Russia and Turkey. He added, “We think Iraq will play a positive role in the region.” Rouhani: U.S. seeking to undermine people’s trust Velayati: U.S. ‘U.S. has launched psychological, economic war on Iran’ POLITICS TEHRAN — President On May 8, President Donald Trump of- Rouhani said that pullout from the 2015 than ever given the current situation in which common enemy deskHassan Rouhani said on ficially withdrew the U.S. from the UN-en- nuclear deal was the “worst choice” adopted “ill-wishers” are against the people, he noted. Tuesday that the U.S. is seeking to “break” dorsed nuclear agreement, known as the Joint by the Trump administration. Elsewhere, he said that the people should of Iran, Iraq the Iranian people through “psychological Comprehensive Plan of Action, and plans to He added that the world considers the U.S. not be worried, because there is no shortage and economic warfare”. reintroduce sanctions on Iran. withdrawal an “illegal action” and “violation in foreign currency or any other commodity. “The U.S. objective is breaking the Rouhani said Iran’s success has never of the UN Security Council’s resolution and “Under no circumstances, the people will face POLITICS TEHRAN — Ali Akbar Velayati, a top people’s trust and their hope on future,” been pleasant to the U.S. and the Zionist international law”. problem in providing their basic needs,” he said. deskforeign policy adviser to the Leader of the Rouhani said during a speech at a nation- regime of Israel and they seek to harm the Iran is in the state of “political and legal To assure the public about the country’s economic Islamic Revolution, says Iran and Iraq have many common wide judiciary congress. Iranians through imposing sanctions. victory”, he added. situation, Rouhani also noted that there is enough areas for expanding cooperation, adding the U.S. is the Rouhani said the three branches of gov- The Iranian people will never stop de- Rouhani went on to say that the three foreign currency to be injected into the market. “common enemy” of the two nations. ernment – administration, parliament and fending their “national interests and pride” branches of government should be united Mostly driven by non-economic factors, the Velayati made the remarks in a meeting with some Iraqi judiciary – bear “heavy responsibility” to which are “independence and freedom”, the more than ever. value of national currency has fallen against intellectuals on Tuesday, Mehr reported. counter the U.S. plot. president remarked. Unity and integrity are required more foreign currencies. He touched upon some major common grounds which can encourage greater interaction between the two neighbors. “First, we are neighbors with 1200 kilometer of common States behind Iranophobia seek to sell more arms in Middle East borders,” he remarked. In an address to the UN Security Council on Monday, Iran’s solution to the situation in Syria. As such, we have always Secondly, Iran and Iraq share many commonalities in ambassador to the UN condemned states which spread adhered to a genuine, Syrian-led and Syrian-owned pro- terms of religion, culture and history, noted the veteran Iranophobia with the aim of selling more arms in the re- cess in order to achieve peace and national reconciliation. politician who is also considered a historian. gion, Mehr reported. While the United States and its regional allies continue The following is the full text of the statement by Gho- their narrow and short-sighted goals in the region, Iran lamali Khoshroo: and Russia have made great sacrifices to combat the ISIS Tehran bazaar I would like to thank the Russian presidency for organ- and other terrorist groups all over the region. While they izing this debate and inviting my Delegation to participate. are pursuing policies to weaken the central Government rioters arrested, I also would like to warmly welcome His Excellency Mr. in Syria, the Islamic Republic of Iran is present in Syria, prosecutor says Sergey Vershinin, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of upon request by the legitimate Government, to assist them the Russian Federation, and acknowledge his important to combat terrorism. role in the Astana Process, which is one of the most efficient As our participation in the Astana and ISSG meetings processes to establish peace and security in the Syrian Arab shows that we support any initiative which can help achieving POLITICS TEHRAN — Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, the desk Republic with the participation of Russian Federation, an end to this conflict. The” Astana format “to which Russia Tehran prosecutor general, has said that Turkey and my country. Iran has always called and Turkey and Iran, are guarantors has developed to an the “main provocateurs” who planned Monday’s protests A comprehensive review of the situation in the Middle effective instrument for joint platform to fight terrorism in Tehran’s bazaar have been arrested. East and North Africa (MENA) requires, first and foremost, for a peaceful solution to and contributing to peace and stability in Syria. The rioters threatened shopkeepers to close their stores an examination of its “root causes”. Such a review should the conflict, based on the The experience gained during the past decade in the and tried to create chaos in some parts of the city and attack also include the performance of the Security Council in MENA region proves that the era of regional and global stores, Jafari-Dolatabadi told reporters on Tuesday. maintaining peace and security in this volatile region. respect for sovereignty and hegemony has long passed, and any effort by any power to He did not elaborate on the number of people detained. A deep analysis of all causes of conflicts and wars in territorial integrity of Syria. achieve it is futile. Instead of yielding to foreign domination “As I said before, the country’s authorities will not hes- MENA over the past decades proves that, in most cases, there or trying to dominate others, countries in our region should itate in countering riots,” he stated, adding that the U.S. is are common denominators, namely: foreign intervention, stoked through invasion, illegal foreign intervention, terror, seek to create a stronger, more prosperous and more stable determined to disrupt Iran’s security, ISNA reported. foreign interference, foreign occupation or a combination of extremism and violence. These problems have persisted region. The Iran-phobic statements we hear these days , them. Even in very rare cases wherein a conflict has internal and deepened due to the failure of the international com- including today are being actively perpetuated by those roots, it has been manipulated, escalated and prolonged munity in carrying out its responsibilities in addressing who are badly in need of creating an imaginary enemy to Iranian deputy due to the illegal interference of regional powers or certain the root causes and because of erroneous actions of the sell their arms and embark arms race in the region has countries from the outside the region. outsiders and naive trans-regional actors. nothing to do with peace and security in the Middle East. FM meets The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands is un- The situation in Yemen is a very serious threat to regional We, in Iran, view our security and stability as insepara- doubtedly the core and central to all conflicts in the MENA and international security and another breeding ground for ble from those of our neighbors. Countries in this region Bolivian president region. The Israeli occupation of Palestinian land is the terrorist groups. Foreign military interventions have never have a common history and culture as well as indivisible core and central to all conflicts in the Middle East. The led to the resolution of any dispute, and there is no doubt opportunities and challenges and can only enjoy security injustice has been continuing for more than seven decades, that the ongoing war in Yemen is not an exception. Saudi and stability at home if and only if our neighbors enjoy POLITICS TEHRAN — Deputy Foreign Minister intensified through Israeli expansionist, aggressive and led Coalition war of aggression in Yemen and numerous internal and international stability and security. We expect deskMorteza Sarmadi has held talks with Evo apartheid policies towards Palestinians and the Region. war crimes committed by it directly endangers peace and other regional countries to adopt a similar approach, and Morales, the president of Bolivia, the official website of Iran’s Israeli regime incremental aggressive and expansion pol- security. Acts such as deliberate attacks on residential areas instead of insisting on the failed experiment of trying to Foreign Ministry reported. icies of this regime and its behavior towards its neighbors and civilian targets, imposing humanitarian blockade, using purchase or outsource security, to concentrate on dialogue, During the Monday meeting, the Iranian diplomat handed is and continues to be the main source of threat to the famine as a war tactic and denial of access to international mutual understanding, confidence building, and cooper- over a letter from President Hassan Rouhani to Morales on peace and security in this region. While the Palestinian relief agencies are all war crimes and punishable under IHL. ation with neighbors. the U.S. illegal withdrawal from the nuclear deal, officially territories and Syrian Golan Heights remains still under The international community and this Council should hold The Islamic Republic of Iran views the establishment referred to as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). illegal Israeli occupation, Israel has undertaken more than the Saudi regime accountable for these criminal acts, and of a “Regional Dialogue Forum” in the Persian Gulf as the Sarmadi then thanked the Bolivian president for his brave 100 strikes to Syria and Lebanon. intervene effectively to end the senseless military operation, best means to resolve regional crises and create a stronger stance against the U.S. exit from the JCPOA. The new mass murder committed by Israel against un- including the ongoing attacks against Hudaydah, the lifeline region. The objective of a strong region — as opposed to a He also underlined the multinational nature of the nu- armed Palestinian civilians is the latest in an old pattern of basic humanitarian aid to millions of needy Yemenis, quest for hegemony and the exclusion of other actors — is clear accord and called on the international community followed by the Israeli regime during the course of the establish a ceasefire, ensure the delivery of humanitarian rooted in recognizing the need to respect the interest of to stand firm against U.S. unilateralism. past seven decades. and medical assistance to the people of Yemen without all stakeholders. Any domineering effort by one country is The unlawful announcement on al-Quds al-Sharif and any discrimination, and restoring peace and stability in not only inappropriate but essentially impossible; indeed, the transfer of the U.S. embassy to this city is another ex- this country through Yemeni-Yemeni dialogue on national those who insist on following that path create instability. IRGC disbands ample of the policies that are exacerbating the problems in reconciliation without preconditions. We can begin adopting confidence-building measures MENA region and the whole Islamic world. The impunity In Syrian Arab Republic, since the beginning of the to bring regional countries closer to each other on the ba- terrorist cell in this regime has enjoyed for so long wouldn’t have been on-going tragedy, Iran has always called for a peaceful sis of such principles as the sovereign equality of states, border province possible without the help it receives from the United States. solution to the conflict, based on the respect for sovereignty non-resort to the threat or use of force, peaceful settlement At the same time, there are other major contributors. and territorial integrity of Syria, as well as the right of the of disputes, respect for territorial integrity of other States, Any foreign intervention, occupation, ensuing instabili- Syrian people to determine their own political future. Time inviolability of international boundaries, non-intervention ties and attempts to engineer societies in the MENA region and again, Iran has reiterated that there can be no military in domestic affairs of others, and respect for the right of POLITICS TEHRAN — Forces from the Islamic desk have led to instability which serves as a breeding ground for peoples to self-determination. By fostering a common Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) dealt terrorist and prepare breeding grounds extremist groups The experience gained understanding of the threats and opportunities at the re- a severe blow late on Monday to a Takfiri terrorist cell in the to grow. These groups who initially received support from gional and global levels, we can move towards achieving a border province of Sistan-Baluchestan in southeast Iran. certain states and quarters within and outside the region, to during the past decade in the non-aggression pact and creating common mechanisms for In a statement released on Tuesday, the IRGC announced fight for them eventually turned into monsters threatening regional cooperation. The countries in the MENA region, that its forces clashed with the terrorist cell that intended to their supporters and creators. As a result, terrorism and MENA region proves that the as the inheritors of the richest civilizations, should stand enter the country from Pakistan, Tasnim reported. extremism, as a serious threat to peace and security, is era of regional and global lofty. We can solve our own problems amongst ourselves The clashes happened near the city of Mirjaveh. much stronger and more spread out in the MENA region and secure a better future for all of our children without In the exchange of fire between the forces and the today following many invasions by the U.S. and its allies hegemony has long passed, outside interference and patronage, both of which come at terrorists, three Takfiri militants were killed and a number more so than it was in 2001. and any effort by any power a heavy cost to our collective dignity as well as our future of others were injured and fled to Pakistan, according The other crises in our region, such as the one in Libya, development. to the statement. Iraq, Syria and Yemen, are all examples of crises being to achieve it is futile. I thank you Mr. President I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JUNE 27, 2018 INTERNATIONAL Israeli occupation of Arab territories UN seeks new funding pledges root cause of Mideast woes: Syria for Palestinian refugees

Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Bashar al-Jaa- fari has stressed that the main reason behind the conflicts in the Middle East is the Israeli occupation of Arab territories, including Syria’s Golan Heights. Speaking during a UN Security Council session on Monday, Jaafari said, “Syria believes that the cause of the conflicts in the Middle East has been and continues to be the Israeli occupation of Arab territories, including Syria’s occupied Golan.” He warned that any attempt to create new crises in order to save the Israeli entity via the liquidation of the Palestinian cause would further increase tensions and escalate threats to international peace and security. “Some governments still politicize the humanitarian file in Syria,” he said elsewhere in his remarks, adding that those countries, which he did not name, “falsify information, fabricate evidence, and manipulate reports on the use of chemical weapon in Syria.” “The Syrian government has never [used] and will not The United Nations implored member countries Monday to fill use any toxic chemical weapons, which it originally doesn’t a critical funding gap that the Trump administration created by possess after eliminating them on board U.S. ships in the sharply cutting the U.S. contribution to a program that helps Mediterranean Sea,” Jaafari stressed. Palestinian refugees across the Middle East. Syria turned over its entire chemical stockpile under a The UN held a conference to raise money for basic servic- deal negotiated by Russia and the United States back in es - from food assistance and medical care to sanitation - for 2013 and under the supervision of the Organization for the 5 million refugees in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Lebanon and Syria. Nevertheless, Western countries keep accusing the Syrian After the session, the United Nations was still tallying how government of conducting chemical attacks every now and much was pledged by which countries against this year’s short- then without offering any evidence. fall of $250 million facing the UN Relief and Works Agency for Elsewhere in his remarks, the Syrian ambassador said Palestinian Refugees, which leads the relief efforts. the U.S. trained militants in 19 positions it occupied in Syria, UN officials said the United States, the program’s top donor, including the al-Tanf and al-Rukban camps located in the gave $364 million to the agency last year but only $60 million area near Syria’s border with Jordan and Iraq, providing this year. Pierre Krahenbuhl, the agency’s director, said the cut them with weapons and ammunition. is endangering basic services such as food assistance in Gaza and He added that Washington also provided “facilitations” medical clinics spread among the five areas, while about 500,000 to the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group to continue its attacks children may not be able to start the school year. on the Syrian army. Referring to recent remarks by Turkey’s of the government of that country. of Kurdish militants in Syria without a permission from “The situation of Palestinians is defined by great anxiety ambassador to the UN in which he said “his country fought He said Ankara was responsible for the spread of terrorism Damascus. and uncertainty, first because Palestinian refugees do not see terrorism in northern Syria and liberated about 4,000 square in Syria, especially in its northern part, as Turkey facilitated Formerly, Ankara has offered the terrorist group of Daesh a solution to their plight on the horizon,” he said at a briefing kilometers,” Jaafari said under international law, no state is the passage of foreign terrorists into Syrian land. easy passage into and out of Syria. before the conference. allowed to enter another’s territory without the permission Turkey has been hitting what it says are the positions (Source: agencies) In Gaza, nearly 2 million men, women and children already are experiencing extreme shortages of water and electricity amid tensions that have worsened between the Palestinians and Is- rael since President Donald Trump opened a U.S. Embassy in Merkel says no EU-wide deal on migration to be reached this week Jerusalem. His administration announced in January that it was with- holding $65 million of a planned $125 million funding installment UN to present plan for Mediterranean migrant centers for EU for the relief agency. At the time, Trump tweeted that he saw no reason to spend so much American money in return for what he called “no ap- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said want the two UN bodies - the International preciation or respect” from Palestinians. Tuesday that an EU-wide solution for the Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Agency spokesman Christopher Gunness has said the actual migration issue would not be reached at a United Nations High Commissioner for Ref- cut was around $300 million because the U.S. had led the agen- summit of the bloc’s leaders later this week ugees (UNHCR) - to make a proposal and cy to believe it would provide $365 million in 2018. The U.S. and added that she would continue to pursue run such sites in the future with EU money. government released $60 million in January so UNRWA could bilateral agreements. Another challenge is finding a state that pay teachers and health workers and keep schools and medical “There will be no solution for the whole would want to host such centers. Migrant services open in Gaza and the West Bank, but made clear that asylum package i.e. for all seven directives, camps run by Tripoli in Libya - where the U.S. donations would be contingent on major reforms. by Friday,” Merkel told a news conference UN also works with EU money to assist peo- State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said last with the visiting Spanish prime minister, ple - have been heavily criticized for horrid week that the agency needs to “determine a way to better manage adding that more time was needed to work conditions. its budgeting and its finances.” on two directives. Before EU leaders meet over migration in The agency was created after the war that followed the birth “For this reason I spoke about working with Brussels on Thursday and Friday, UNHCR of Israel in 1948, with about 700,000 Palestinians living there countries that are willing on all dimensions chief Filipo Grandi said in a letter he want- either fleeing or being forced from their homes. The UNRWA now of the migration policy - the Spanish prime ed to discuss with them “new collaborative faces its worst crisis in nearly seven decades, Krahenbuhl said. minister spoke about the external dimension arrangements, within and outside the EU”. In a report to the Security Council earlier this month, UN Sec- and I spoke about the internal dimension “UNHCR is currently preparing a proposal retary-General Antonio Guterres said the desperate humanitarian and in this spirit we will have further talks in this respect, together with the International situation in Gaza is compounded by the potential suspension of in the coming days,” Merkel added. Organization for Migration, which we will UN programs, which are “a lifeline for Palestinians.” UN to present plan for Mediter- share with you shortly,” Grandi said in his (Source: AP) ranean migrant centers for EU letter, dated June 18 and seen by Reuters The United Nations agencies for migration on Tuesday. and refugees will present the European Union The IOM and UNHCR did not immediately with a plan for “regional disembarkation plat- reply to request for comment. forms” around the Mediterranean where the Italy’s new populist government has bloc could hold migrants and decide whether allow charities that rescue migrants at sea and hold those whose applications fail before refused entry in recent days to two rescue Macedonian president to admit them. to dock ships on its shores, and migration they are sent back. ships with hundreds of people aboard. Spain The plan appears to have fairly broad policy has threatened to divide Angela Merkel’s Various EU states have expressed differing took in one; Malta is now expected to let in refuses to sign “criminal” support in an EU now bitterly split over im- ruling coalition in Germany. opinions of what such centers could comprise. the other. migration policy, although countries have EU leaders will hold a summit later this France has said Italy could host them; Italy Italy has long been overwhelmed with law to change country’s yet to settle on the details. week to discuss more measures to curb arrival wants them to sit in Africa. arrivals and is now together with govern- Europe’s migration crisis, which peaked numbers, including by tightening external A similar plan for “Africa hot spots” pro- ments such as Austria and Hungary pushing name with the arrival of more than 1 million asylum borders and giving more aid to countries posed two years ago by one of Europe’s most tougher anti-immigration policies for the seekers in 2015, has been tapering off with from Turkey to Libya to help them prevent hardline anti-immigrant leaders, Hungarian whole of the EU. arrivals falling to the tens of thousands so people from setting sail for Europe. Prime Minister Viktor Orban, was widely UN data shows some 43,000 people ar- Macedonia’s President Gjorge Ivanov refused Tuesday to sign an far this year. But the issue has taken on new One new idea is for “regional disem- criticized as potentially violating rights of rived to the EU across the Mediterranean agreement on changing the country’s name to resolve a dispute political urgency in recent weeks as anti-im- barkation platforms” where the EU would those who attempt the crossing. this year. More than one thousand perished with Greece, calling it a “criminal act” that violated the constitution. migrant parties make their influence felt. take in people saved from boats crossing the The initiative still poses legal, security in trying to make the crossing. This month the foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia A new government in Italy is refusing to Mediterranean, assess their asylum requests and rights challenges but EU leaders now (Source: agencies) agreed to rename the tiny ex-Yugoslav republic the “Republic of North Macedonia,” resolving a decades-old dispute that had blocked Macedonia’s entry into the EU and NATO. Macedonia’s parliament ratified the agreement last week. But Mattis becomes first U.S. defense chief to visit China under Trump in a statement quoted by the state-run agency MIA, Ivanov said he had “no mandate to sign the agreement”, which “violated the U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday became “I’m going there to have a conversation.” an important part of China’s ties with the United States, constitution of Macedonia, and made Macedonia dependent on the first Pentagon chief to visit China since 2014, start- Such an approach would appear to be welcome in China, despite other problems the two countries currently have. a third party, i.e. Greece.” ing a three-day trip with a goal of improving security where widely-read state-run tabloid The Global Times said: “I believe that as long as both countries have this desire The president’s refusal to sign is unlikely to block the agree- dialogue with Beijing despite increasingly fraught Si- “Both sides should learn to be good listeners.” to meet each other halfway, there are no difficulties that ment by itself: parliament is expected to override his veto with no-U.S. relations. “Mattis’ visit suggests that the Trump administration cannot be overcome,” Lu said. a simple majority in a second vote. Mattis, a former Marine general, has been highly critical is still willing to hold military dialogue with China,” it said Beijing hosted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last But Ivanov’s strong words were a sign of the high political of China’s muscular military moves in the South China Sea. in an editorial. week, and getting Beijing’s view of North Korea is expected stakes in an issue that arouses passion for both Macedonians and The U.S. military even withdrew an invitation to China to “Such bilateral talks will alleviate tensions between the to be high on Mattis’ agenda. Greeks, and could signal difficulty ahead for the government, join a multinational naval exercise which will start during two countries and is better than blindly guessing the other’s North Korean media said Chinese President Xi Jinping which must still amend the constitution and has pledged to put Mattis’ visit, upsetting Beijing. ‘strategic ambitions.’” and Kim reached an understanding on the denuclearization the name change to voters in a referendum. The trip comes against the backdrop of spiraling tensions Still, the Global Times was quick to list major irritants of the Korean peninsula after discussing the outcome of the “Implementation of this agreement will have legal implica- between Beijing and Washington over trade. Beijing is in the U.S.-China relationship, including the U.S. decision U.S.-North Korea summit. tions and therefore it represents a criminal act,” Ivanov said. also suspicious of U.S. intentions toward self-governing to brand China a strategic competitor in President Donald “The People’s Republic of China also want to denuclear- Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said he will resign if the agreement and democratic Taiwan, which is armed by the United Trump’s National Defense Strategy. ize the Korean Peninsula. That’s their policy,” Mattis said, fails to get support in the promised referendum. “Macedonia has States, though China views the island as a sacred part of “China has no intention or ambition to challenge US global raising the issue as one where there was some convergence no plan B,” Zaev told 1TV. its territory. influence. On the contrary, Chinese are deeply concerned about in U.S. and Chinese interests. Macedonia’s name has led to a dispute with Greece since Mattis, who was greeted with a floral bouquet as he exited Washington’s containment plans against Beijing,” it said. Still, some analysts have seen China’s willingness to Macedonia became independent with the breakup of Yugoslavia his plane in Beijing, was cautious to avoid stoking tensions Taiwan is a core concern of China’s when it comes to pressure North Korea as waning, including with sanctions in the early 1990s. A Greek province is also called Macedonia, and when speaking to reporters ahead of his trip. Mattis said relations with Washington. enforcement. many Greeks consider the name to be a claim to their territory. he sought “open dialogue” at a strategic level when he met Ahead of Mattis’ arrival, Chinese state media said a for- A senior U.S. defense official, speaking to reporters ahead Greece has blocked Macedonia from joining the EU or NATO, with military officials in Beijing. mation of Chinese warships has been holding daily combat of Mattis’ trip, suggested that the United States saw room for and required it to enter the United Nations as “The Former Yu- “I want to go in, right now, without basically poisoning drills for more than a week in waters near Taiwan, and there some improvement in sanctions enforcement along China’s goslav Republic of Macedonia”. the well at this point, as if my mind’s already made up,” have been frequent Chinese air force exercises near the island. border with North Korea. But the official added the U.S. Nationalists in both Greece and Macedonia remain opposed to said Mattis, who was due to meet U.S. embassy officials Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told re- expected Beijing to uphold its commitments. the deal, which must also be approved by the Greek parliament. on Tuesday. porters that military-to-military relations had always been (Source: Reuters) (Source: Daily Star) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ECONOMY JUNE 27, 2018

STOCK MARKET Govt. aims to TEDPIX 113527.7 IFX 1296.45 Sources: tse.ir, Ifb.ir strengthen CURRENCIES USD 42,540 rials national currency EUR 49,840 rials ECONOMY TEHRAN — “Domestic economy faces no problem GBP 56,520 rials deskGovernment spokesman and we plan to strengthen our national Mohammad Baqer Nobakht on Tuesday currency,” IRIB quoted him as saying in AED 11,850 rials said that the government’s main target is a news conference. than the figure of the same time span in compared to that of the previous year, Source: mehrnews.com increasing the value of national currency, “From March 21 to June 24, the the preceding year,” he said, “demand while government oil revenues and general rial, however, the job will not be fulfilled government has paid above $11.16 billion for and supply of foreign currencies in income has increased 74 percent and 59.8 without the support of the Iranian nation. of foreign currencies, which is not less the said time has increased 21 percent percent, respectively.” COMMODITIES Non-oil exports rises 15.5% European companies to continue WTI $68.47/b in 3 months yr/yr trade with Iran: Bulgarian envoy Brent $74.95/b ECONOMY TEHRAN — Iran ECONOMY TEHRAN—Bulgaria’s OPEC Basket $71.89/b deskcould export $11.6 bil- deskambassador to Iran said lion of non-oil goods during the first three that U.S. withdrawal from Iran’s nuclear deal Gold $1,259.70 /oz months of the current Iranian calendar (known as JCPOA) cannot prevent European Silver $16.32/oz year (March 21-June 21, 2018), showing companies from having trade transactions an annual increase of 15.5 percent, Iranian with the country, IRNA reported on Tuesday. Platinium $871.60/oz economy minister announced in a press Christo Stefanov Polendakov, who made Sources: oilprice.com, Moneymetals.com conference on Tuesday. the remarks during the opening ceremony of Level of imports in the said time, as International Industrial and Metalworking IRNA quoted Masoud Karbasian as say- Technologies Exhibition (AMB Iran 2018) Intl. metal working ing, stood at $11 billion, registering 2.7 ernment has allocated $18 billion for in Tehran, added that “removal of sanctions about a new round of sanctions against Iran.” percent decrease in comparison with the imports of necessary goods during the was among the achievements of JCPOA im- As he informed, the European Union exhibition kicks off in Tehran same period in preceding year. present Iranian year which will end on plementation but U.S. unilateral withdrawal is on the process of facilitating European According to the minister, the gov- March 20, 2019. from deal cannot be translated as a concern investors’ presence in Iran. ECONOMY TEHRAN – The third edition of Iran’s Inter- desknational Exhibition for Metal Working (AMB Iran 2018) kicked off on Tuesday at Shahr-e-Aftab International Gas exports up 9% in a Kharg oil terminal to increase Exhibition Center in Tehran. As reported by IRNA, over 144 Iranian and foreign exhibitors quarter on year capacity by 700,000 bpd from 14 different countries including Germany, Italy, France, the ENERGY TEHRAN — Iran’s ENERGY TEHRAN – Iran’s Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, China, Japan, Czech Republic, deskgas exports increased deskKharg Island oil Taiwan, Bulgaria and Russia have registered to participate in by nine percent during the first quarter terminal capacity for receiving, storing this year’s exhibition. of current Iranian calendar year (March and exporting of oil is set to increase by 21-June 21), according to a gas official. 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) in two years, Mehdi Jamshidi Dana, the dispatching IRNA reported on Tuesday quoting an oil director in National Iranian Gas Company official. (NIGC), announced that 3.3 billion cubic According to Pirouz Mousavi, the man- meters of gas has been exported to the aging director of Iranian Oil Terminals neighboring countries during the three- Company (IOTC), the necessary infrastruc- month period, IRIB reported on Tuesday. month period, indicating 4.7-percent tures for such a growth are being prepared suitable depth for gigantic oil vessels The official also highlighted that gas growth year on year. in the terminal. berthing, Kharg Island oil terminal has supply to the power plants and also gas The NIGC director put the gas Iran exported 800 million barrels of been recognized as one of the country’s injection to the oil fields have been highly extraction at 60.8 billion cubic meters, crude oil from Kharg Island terminal in most suitable places for crude oil export increased during the first quarter of this with 9.3-percent rise compared to the same south part of the country during the last and loading sites. year compared to that of the preceding year. period of last year and put the amount of Iranian calendar year 1396 (ended on According to the official, Iran is currently He said 19.2 billion cubic meters of gas injected to the oil fields at 3.7 billion March 20). exporting about 2.6 million bpd of crude gas has been supplied to the power plants cubic meters, with 2.7-fold increase year Due to its close distance to oilfield oil and gas condensate, most of which is Iranian Deputy Industry Minister Reza Rahmani, Bulgaria’s throughout the country during the three- on year. regions, its good offshore position and being shipped from Kharg terminal. ambassador in Tehran and Wilfried Schäfer, the executive direc- tor of the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association (VDW), were among the officials who attended the opening ceremony. Speaking at the sidelines of the inaugural ceremony, Schafer Investors losing faith in global economic upswing mentioned the upward trend of the two countries trade during Investors’ confidence in the global economic who manage $4.1tn of funds found that optimistic at the start of the year and there credit have begun to deteriorate, ASR found. the last two years, saying that the utilization of German tools in upswing is fading but this has not yet fed expectations of an improvement in global is a risk of a classic tactical correction as they Investors now expect U.S. high-yield credit Iran has more than doubled before the end of 2017. through into their expectations for financial business confidence had declined sharply realize the synchronized global growth they to underperform its investment-grade The exhibition aims to provide a good opportunity for joint assets, according to new research. since the start of the year. were expecting is not materializing.” counterparts in the coming year. business talks in the field and to facilitate technology transfer Although concerns about corporate credit Optimism about the future performance Market participants have “drastically “There is clearly a loss of confidence coming for improving Iranian industries. risk are becoming more pervasive, with of economic and financial markets has not reassessed their regional preferences within through in corporate credit, and it is very sentiment particularly souring for emerging recovered since a peak in late 2016 after the the equity market”, Bowers said. In the past rare for stocks to do well when that happens,” markets, there is a “cognitive dissonance election of U.S. President Donald Trump stoked three months investors have shifted to a bearish Bowers said. between people’s views about the economic expectations of substantial fiscal stimulus, stance on emerging market stocks, while their The dip in investors’ economic expectations Bank of England’s cycle versus asset allocation decisions” with and is now at its lowest level for nearly four expectations for U.S. equities’ performance is likely to feed through into investment McCafferty says must boost “people still pretty upbeat about earnings and years as market participants contemplate the continue to rise. decisions in the second half of this year, he equities”, according to David Bowers, head implications of the escalating trade war, ASR For only the second quarter since late 2014, added: “There is still quite a lot of complacency public confidence in QE of research at Absolute Strategy Research, found. investors expect U.S. equities to outperform and wishful thinking embedded in some which carried out the investor survey. “This could be as good as it gets for global the rest of the world over the next 12 months. investors’ mindsets.” The Bank of England must tackle public concern about the ef- The quarterly survey of 214 asset allocators growth,” said Bowers. “People were too In contrast, attitudes towards U.S. corporate (Source: Financial Times) fectiveness of its quantitative easing program, or risk finding its hands tied during a future economic crisis, outgoing policymaker Ian McCafferty said on Tuesday. Le Maire warns critics Eurozone budget is ‘non negotiable’ The BoE bought 435 billion pounds ($577 billion) of Brit- France’s finance minister has cautioned that a landmark or handouts — a red line for Berlin and other northern EU ish government debt to boost the economy after the 2008-09 Franco-German proposal for a Eurozone budget was “non- countries — but only short to medium-term loans granted by financial crisis and the aftermath of June 2016’s Brexit vote. negotiable” as he urged EU members to refrain from using the the European Stability Mechanism, the bloc’s bailout fund. But McCafferty, who steps down in August and currently reform as a bargaining chip in the bloc’s mounting dispute Countries entering a recession would be allowed to cut supports tightening interest rates, said he had been struck by over migration. their Eurozone budget contributions. The ESM would cover public distrust of the program during his visits to businesses Speaking to the Financial Times days before EU leaders meet them and be reimbursed later. and consumer groups in recent years. to review the Franco-German “road map” for the Eurozone, “It allows countries to continue to invest in innovation and “It seems there is a surprisingly widespread belief that QE Bruno Le Maire hit back at a faction of 12 member states that research, which are usually the first spending lines you cut was ineffective in a macro-economic sense, while introducing has sharply criticized the plans, accusing those governments when in a downturn but are also those that allow a country serious distortions into the economy in terms of asset bubbles of being “of bad-faith” or “contradictory”. to recover more quickly,” he said. “And these are loans and and inequality,” McCafferty said. Le Maire said the Eurozone could no longer continue therefore no transfers. I know the red lines. There are no Such views were “misperceptions”, he added. without reform, saying it was both financially and politically transfers but there is solidarity.” But it was important for the BoE to tackle them and to pub- necessary. He said the 19 Eurozone members would be better off lish more research on the effectiveness of QE asset purchases. “The status quo is impossible,” he said in an interview. “A jointly investing in innovation than leading national policies “I want to highlight my concern that, if left unaddressed, that common budget is something that is not negotiable for France. started]. And yet, they were hit badly by the crisis,” he said. of their own, “or else we will end up with Chinese or U.S. distrust of QE could well limit the MPC’s scope for policy action “There is a need for something to stabilize against an “Can we accept that a country like Spain goes through so much batteries in European cars”. during the next downturn,” he said economic shock?.?.?.?To defend the status quo is to feed social and economic suffering and takes so long to recover Asked why this spending should be funded at Eurozone (Source: Reuters) populism.” because there is no stabilization tool in the Eurozone? My rather than EU level, Le Maire said that with Brexit, “more The plans agreed by French president Emmanuel Macron answer is categorically no. Those arguments are unacceptable.” than ever, the Eurozone is the future of Europe.” and German chancellor Angela Merkel in the German town Le Maire said he would welcome alternative proposals to “It is why we need to strengthen the Eurozone,” he said. of Meseberg last week include a budget to fund investment address differences in competitiveness in the currency union. “If you do not have a stabilization tool, you put the common Trump not planning to limit programs in the 19-member Eurozone members, as well “It’s all right to criticize, but it’s better to make proposals,” currency and Europe as a whole in great danger when there Chinese investment in U.S. as provide financial support to countries facing recession. he said. is another crisis. The [Meseberg] accord is the best we could [achieve] in The 49-year-old minister acknowledged that the migration “We are sharing the same currency so it is legitimate to firms: white house adviser the current political and economic environment. It reflects crisis posed a threat to the Franco-German Eurozone plans — go further and to build policies that help us fund innovation the courage of both Merkel and Macron and that countries such as Italy, as well as Merkel’s domestic and help weather downturns,” he said. “Our opponents are Donald Trump has no plans to limit Chinese investment in US However opposition quickly emerged in Germany and political opponents, could see the Meseberg proposals as the first to say everybody should be allowed in the Eurozone companies, National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro said elsewhere. A dozen countries, spearheaded by the Netherlands bargaining chips in talks over how to handle migrants from while also blocking its progress. It is not admissible.” in an interview. and including non-Eurozone members such as Denmark, Africa or the Middle East. He said some countries including Ireland had already “There’s no plans to impose investment restrictions on any have signaled their “wide divergence” on the need for any “I am pleading for these two subjects to be kept completely toned down their opposition to the proposals and that the countries that are interfering in anyway with our country,” Na- budget, with some states concerned about giving the wrong separate,” Le Maire said. “We have the opportunity to show 12 countries were “not a united group”, with varying views varro told CNBC on Monday. “All we are doing here is trying to incentives to less fiscally disciplined countries. we are moving forward on the economy and drawing the of a Eurozone budget or the need for convergent tax policies. defend our technology when it may be threatened.” Separately, a deepening row over migration, sparked by lessons from the financial crisis. Let’s seize on this positive “Some like Ireland and Luxembourg have expressed an Trump Reportedly Plans to Restrict Chinese Investments Italy’s freshly elected populist government and conservative agenda.” interest in a budget and have reservations regarding fiscal in U.S. Tech Firms rebels in Merkel’s coalition, is adding to the difficulty of Le Maire hailed the Meseberg accord as a “political convergence,” he noted. “That is very different from the Earlier on Monday Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin building a consensus over the Eurozone and has left the EU breakthrough” that remained deliberately vague to allow Netherlands, which is opposed to a budget.” said in a Twitter message that the White House was considering facing one of its most difficult and crucial leaders’ summits debate among the other Eurozone members. But he also Le Maire said the EU’s Franco-German “motor” — limiting investment in the United States from all countries that in years. acknowledged the talks had been constrained by Merkel’s agreement between Paris and Berlin – remained as important were trying to steal US technology. Following his comments the Le Maire said it was “false” for opponents of the Meseberg political difficulties at home. as ever at a time when U.S. president Donald Trump sought Dow-Jones Index plunged 500 points. agreement to suggest the Eurozone could avoid reform if “The accord is the best we could in the current political to “weaken Europe”. Navarro said the drop was an overreaction because of a mis- member states showed better budget discipline. and economic environment. It reflects the courage of both Trump “gives us a reason to unite and a historic chance understanding about where Trump is headed. “Countries such as Ireland and Spain were not in a Merkel and Macron,” he said. to become stronger,” he said. (Source: Sputnik) catastrophic budgetary situation [when the financial crisis He insisted French plans did not involve fiscal “transfers” (Source: Financial Times) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JUNE 27, 2018 ENERGY 5

Oil rises as outages balance Japan aims to power Tokyo Olympics with 100 percent renewable energy trade dispute, OPEC With the Tokyo Olympics just two years away, the event’s organiz- Oil prices rose on Tuesday, supported by since 2017, when OPEC and its partners start- ing committee has announced it wants to power the games using Canadian production losses and uncertainty ed withholding supply to prop up slumping renewable energy only. over Libyan exports, but under pressure from prices at the time. That means building systems to supply the Games — both Olympic climbing OPEC supply and intensifying trade But some analysts think oil markets will and Paralympic — with electricity generated from renewable sources conflicts between the United States and other stay tight. such as wind and solar as part of efforts to promote decarbonization, major economies. “Despite the OPEC agreement (last week) the Japan Times reported. Benchmark Brent crude was up 35 cents we believe that tight supply is likely to drive Described by an official as “unprecedented” for a major sport- at $75.08 a barrel by 0910 GMT. U.S. light oil prices higher during 2018,” said Jason ing event, the Games’ renewable energy target will also encompass crude was 30 cents higher at $68.38 a barrel. Gammel of U.S. investment bank Jefferies. the athletes’ village, the international broadcasting center, and the Brent, which tends to reflect global supply Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) main press center. and demand, was driven up by uncertainty said Brent could rise to $90 a barrel by the Part of the strategy designed to help it reach its target will involve around oil exports by Libya, a member of the second quarter of 2019. renting and leasing items that are used during the event. If any need Organization of the Petroleum Exporting But BoAML said the effects of the glob- to be bought, the committee will make arrangements to guarantee Countries. al trade dispute between the United States their use once the sporting extravaganza is over. Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa and major other economies including the Organizers also plan to purchase renewable energy from power Haftar’s forces have given control of oil ports European Union and China were gradually companies and to install solar panels where possible. to a separate National Oil Corporation (NOC) taking effect. Speaking of solar panels, the committee is making plans to build based in the country’s east. In a sign of what may lie ahead for eco- a number of solar roads to generate some of the power used by the The official state-owned oil company from consultancy Trifecta. down Asian refinery product margins to two- nomic growth, the escalating trade fight has 2020 Games. Embedded directly in roads, the surface of the panels the capital Tripoli, also called NOC, will no Production problems at one of Canada’s year lows. already led to sharp sell-offs in stock markets, includes a special resin to ensure their durability, the Independent longer be allowed to handle that oil, he said. largest oil sands facilities drove front-month Uncertainty over Libya’s exports follows especially in Asia. reported. As part of trial, a convenience store near Tokyo recently “The move increases the risk that Libyan U.S. crude to its highest premium above sec- a move by OPEC and other oil producers to “We estimate a demand drop of 44,000 installed solar panels beneath its parking lot, with the setup now oil output will be shut in as the NOC in Tripoli ond-month futures since 2014. [nL1N1TR100] increase supply by around 1 million barrels bpd for every 1 percent drop in global trade,” taking care of almost 10 percent of the store’s power needs. Similar is the only legal entity with the right to sell Higher feedstock crude oil prices, as well as per day (bpd). BoAML said. technology has already been installed in several roads in France, as oil,” said Sukrit Vijayakar, director of energy surging fuel exports from China, have pulled Oil markets have tightened significantly (Source: oilprice.com) well as on cycle paths in the Netherlands. (Source: digitaltrends.com)

The bullish truth of open’s agreement Exxon mulls “multi-billion” Oil prices jumped 5 percent on Friday after the to open the spigot, and if anything, the risk halt oil purchases from Iran, a stricter request that coordinates oil market policy. Bloomberg dollar expansion OPEC+ group announced its vague decision to oil prices is decidedly on the upside. Most than what came from the Obama administra- reports that the new group could change the to maintain its collective target while lifting OPEC members cannot increase output, even tion. Iran admitted that a lot of buyers won’t one member, one vote policy to something at Singapore refinery country-specific limits on oil production. The if they wanted to. The oil market may only see receive exemptions from Washington, which that grants more power to larger producers. result was viewed as only a modest increase, 600,000 bpd of extra supply. could go a long way to curbing Iranian exports. Proponents would cite that bringing Russia ExxonMobil said on Tuesday it plans to make a final investment which could lead to tighter supplies. That will have only a marginal impact on Moreover, there is always the chance that and others into an official body would grant the decision in 2019 on what it called a “multi-billion dollar” project that Over the weekend, Saudi officials sought the market, amounting to less than 1 percent unexpected disruptions occur elsewhere. group more influence over global oil markets would expand its clean fuel and lubricant output at its Singapore to clarify, adding that the move would lead to of supply. It would simply offset the declines News just broke that Canada’s oil exports by folding a greater share of global produc- refinery. the increase of 1 million barrels per day. That from Venezuela over the past year. But the could fall by 360,000 bpd in July because tion under market management. Critics would The project is aimed at increasing the competitiveness of ExxonMobil’s caused prices to fall back a bit on Monday. declines from Venezuela are not stopping of an outage at an oil sands facility run by note that many OPEC members are already Singapore refining-petrochemical complex, which is one of the company’s “There’s still some uncertainty in the there. They are set to continue, perhaps at Syncrude Canada. producing at maximum capacity, and some largest integrated fuels, lubricant base stocks and chemicals production market as far as how everything is going to an accelerating rate. And they are not the only Most importantly, the sanguine outlook of them have falling outputs, which means sites in the world, the company said in a statement. start to unwind,” Mark Watkins of U.S. Bank ones seeing sudden disruptions in supply. towards the oil market over the next year is that their discretion to raise or lower output If the project proceeds, the new output is expected in 2023, the Wealth Management told Bloomberg. “Ahead Libya temporarily lost 450,000 bpd over the largely based on massive production increases is a mirage. Also, critics would question the company said, without disclosing exactly how much it plans to invest. of that, a lot of people were thinking the worst last two weeks and Nigeria is also suffering from the Permian basin in the U.S., but pipeline long-term viability of cooperation between so “This investment would move it to the top quartile worldwide in case scenario as far as OPEC’s going to open from lower exports because of pipeline issues. constraints could slow growth in Texas. many countries with such disparate interests. terms of refining competitiveness and increase the site’s competitive up the spigots and oil is going to flood the Also, the market seems to have forgotten Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Russia are Nevertheless, an expanded OPEC/non- advantage from crude cracking,” said Bryan Milton, president of market again.” about the expected losses from Iran, perhaps discussing a more permanent framework for OPEC alliance on an official basis, should it ExxonMobil Fuels & Lubricants Company. However, the assumption that OPEC is because there is still a lot of uncertainty over cooperation, perhaps some sort of “Super occur, would mark the largest change to oil The expansion would enable ExxonMobil to introduce a new high- going to flood the market made no sense how bad the disruptions will be. The latest OPEC” in which the OPEC and non-OPEC market management since the creation of viscosity base stock to the market, it said. Base oil is the raw material to begin with, and the result should not be on that front is not encouraging. The U.S. countries currently cooperating agree to create OPEC decades ago. for lubricants used in machinery motor parts. read as a bearish result. OPEC is not going government has asked Japan to completely a parallel institution, separate from OPEC itself, (Source: oilprice.com) (Source: Reuters) ADVERTISEMENTS

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Is Trump pushing America Turks have voted away towards a second civil war? By Robert Reich their democracy Imagine that an impeachment resolution against Trump By Diego Cupolo daily, and 90 percent of mainstream media passes the House. Trump claims it’s the work of the “deep is pro-government in Turkey. This can feel state.” Fox News’s Sean Hannity demands every honest First they ignored him. Then they laughed like oppression for those who don’t vote patriot take to the streets. Right-wing social media call at him. Then they jailed him. Then he for him. The fact the elections took place for war. As insurrection spreads, Trump commands the became perhaps Turkey’s most powerful under a state of emergency, in place since armed forces to side with the “patriots.” leader in 80 years. the failed coup of 2016, can also feel unjust. Or it’s November 2020 and Trump has lost the election. On Monday night, Recep Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan’s opponents are, as a result, in- He charges voter fraud, claiming that the “deep state” extended his 16-year dominance over Turkey creasingly debating his legitimacy. While organized tens of millions of illegal immigrants to vote with a victory in the first round of the coun- initial polling remains marred by allega- against him, and says he has an obligation not to step down. try’s snap elections, winning 52.5 percent of tions of fraud and voter intimidation, the Demonstrations and riots ensue. Trump commands the the vote. In the eyes of his roughly 26 million incumbent’s 10-million-vote margin was armed forces to put them down. supporters, it was a resounding victory for enough for his main challenger to concede the powerless, the infuriated majority of a defeat this afternoon. “Have they stolen polarized world split between the comfort- votes? Yes, they have,” Muharrem ?nce of able and those who simply must muddle the Republican People’s Party (CHP) told through misfortune. reporters at a press conference in Ankara. “The winner is Turkey, the Turkish na- “Have they stolen 10 million votes? No. I tion. The winner is all the aggrieved people accept the results of the elections.” in our region, all the oppressed in the world,” Going forward, Erdogan’s agenda will Erdogan told the crowd of supporters that surely be influenced by the Nationalist Move- gathered last night at the headquarters of ment Party, which formed a coalition with his Justice and Development Party (AKP) the AKP for the elections, helping it attain a in Ankara to celebrate. parliamentary majority. Turkey’s minority- But it’s not just the economically “op- focused, left-leaning Peoples’ Democratic pressed” and marginalized classes that flock Party, meanwhile, surpassed the 10 percent to Erdogan. Many of his supporters come threshold required to remain in parliament, from the middle class, or are rich business despite state efforts to suppress and intimi- owners who felt voiceless before Erdogan’s date its supporters in the nation’s Kurdish- arrival. “The fault lines in the country are majority southeast. Erdogan will now govern so clear,” Ziya Meral, a resident fellow at Erdogan’s election victory advances his with one of the most diverse parliaments the British Army’s Centre for Historical vision of absolute control. in Turkey’s history. Analysis and Conflict Research, told me. Depending on how the new parliament When voters follow those fault lines to the his dream of an executive presidency, winning voted away their democracy. asserts itself, Turkey’s democratic princi- If these sound far-fetched, consider Trump’s torrent polling station, elections benefit the “reli- a referendum that will allow him to appoint Erdogan’s supporters handed him this ples might prove more resilient than they of lies, his admiration for foreign dictators, his off-hand gious, conservative nationalists, because a judges and cabinet members, form and regu- array of powers because they believe he is may currently appear, Meral said. “What jokes about being “president for life” (Xi Xinping “was substantial portion of Turkey is religious, late ministries, draft budgets, and appoint or one of them, and therefore will never betray Erdogan will do from now on is pretty much able to do that,” he told admirers in March. “I think conservative, and nationalist. We have to remove senior civil servants, mostly without them. Though he now spends much of his what he’s been doing, which is worrying … it’s great. Maybe we’ll give that a shot some day.”), accept that fact.” parliamentary approval. The president will time in the 1,150-room presidential palace but there was 87 percent voter turnout, and and his increasing invocation of a “deep state” plot The problem is that such victories for also be able to dissolve parliament, which he built in Ankara, before his rise, he cast the people of Turkey displayed ownership of against him. Turkey’s supposedly oppressed classes can would then trigger new elections. With his himself as a pious Turk from a working- their electoral politics,” Meral said. “That’s The United States is premised on an agreement about feel like oppression for the other half of the victory, Erdogan is poised to rule Turkey for class neighborhood in Istanbul. He still a sign this is a country that you can’t really how to deal with our disagreements. It’s called the Consti- country’s voters, who just missed their best up to three more terms with consolidated embraces that image every time he picks brush off as what a particular political actor tution. We trust our system of government enough that we chance to date to unseat a leader with very real governing powers — what his opponents up a microphone — which he does often: might want,” he added. abide by its outcomes even though we may disagree with staying power. Last year, Erdogan achieved call “one man rule.” Turks have, in essence, Multiple channels air his speeches almost (Source: The Atlantic) them. Only once in our history—in 1861— did enough of us distrust the system so much we succumbed to civil war. But what happens if a president claims our system is no longer trustworthy? The U.S. departure from UNHRC is How should Europe respond to Last week Trump accused the “deep state” of embedding a spy in his campaign for political purposes. “Spygate” soon reflection of widespread impunity Trump’s bullying? unraveled after Republican House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy dismissed it, but truth has never silenced Trump for long. Trump’s immediate goal is to discredit Robert Mueller’s investigation. But his strategy appears to go beyond that. In tweets and on Fox News, Trump’s overall mission is repeatedly described as a “war on the deep state.” In his 2013 novel A Delicate Truth, John le Carré describes the “deep state” as a moneyed élite—“non-governmental insiders from banking, industry, and commerce” who rule in secret. America already may be close to that sort of deep state. As Princeton professor Martin Gilens and Professor Ben- jamin Page of Northwestern University found after ana- lyzing 1,799 policy issues that came before Congress, “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.” Instead, Gilens and Page concluded, lawmakers respond to the policy demands of wealthy individuals and moneyed business interests. Gilens’ and Page’s data come from the period 1981 to 2002, before the Supreme Court opened the floodgates By Ramona Wadi effort to combat the hypocritical stances There was a time when keeping Eu- with a hard look at realities. Europe is badly to big money in its “Citizens United” decision. It’s likely taken by the UN and its organizations rope together, politically, economically splintered, North vs. South, East vs. West, to be far worse now. There is a major flaw which is over- with regard to colonialism would serve and militarily, was an American priority. by economic crises, mass migration, the rise So when Trump says the political system is “rigged,” he’s looked when discussing the U.S. with- a better purpose. Yet the question be- Emerging powerful after World War II, of populism and a widespread skepticism, not far off the mark. Bernie Sanders said the same thing. drawal from the UN Human Rights gets itself. Where would the UN be the United States worked hard to build a most notably expressed by Brexit, about A Monmouth Poll released in March found that a bi- Council (UNHRC). On one hand it without the collateral damage caused Western community of values, trade and the benefits of a united Europe. Hostility partisan majority of Americans already believes that an shows the collaborative efforts of Is- by colonialism? security around the trans-Atlantic alliance, to Trump will not be enough to unite the unelected “deep state” is manipulating national policy. rael and the U.S. to marginalize their Likewise, Agenda Item 7 serves proudly claiming the title of the leader of Europeans anytime soon on issues such But here’s the crucial distinction. Trump’s “deep state” human rights violations away from other purposes than just highlighting the free world. as eurozone reforms, trade or asylum, es- isn’t the moneyed interests. It’s a supposed cabal of govern- scrutiny. However, analyzing the de- Israel’s violations against Palestinians. President Trump has taken a differ- pecially as he is held on high in much of ment workers, intelligence personnel, researchers, experts, parture within the limited framework Its impact is lost amid inaction for ent approach. The diplomatic niceties, the the European far right. scientists, professors, and journalists — the people who of Israel and the U.S. claiming “anti- Palestine. If one removes its perma- liberal values, the rules, the international Trump is right, moreover, to charge, as make, advise about, analyze, or report on public policy. Israel” bias also shields the interna- nence, there is little that distinguishes institutions, the multilateral gatherings, have his predecessors, that Europe is not In the real world, they’re supposed to be truth-tellers. tional organization from scrutiny. the nature of Israeli criticism at the the noble causes — it all rubs Trump the paying its fair share for Western security. In Trump’s conspiracy fantasy they’re out to get him—in One can only speak of loss if either UNHRC from criticism elsewhere. wrong way. When Chancellor Angela Merkel Though European spending did increase cahoots with former members of the Obama administra- the U.S. or the UNHRC contributed The formula employed by the inter- was wrestling with a dire political crisis last year and is expected to continue in- tion, liberals, and Democrats. an action of significance, in this case, national community is consistent and in Germany last week, Trump jumped in creasing, only the United States and three Trump has never behaved as if he thought he was presi- towards supporting Palestinians against ultimately leads back to the two-state with a typically gratuitous swipe about how other members of NATO spend at least 2 dent of all Americans, anyway. He’s acted as if he’s only Israeli colonial violence. In the absence compromise. External decisions are migration is “rocking the already tenuous percent of their gross domestic product — the president of the 63 of such dynamics, the U.S. departure being taken for Palestinians while the Berlin coalition,” throwing in the falsehood the NATO guideline — on defense. That million who voted for Trump has never is merely a reflection of the impunity only options are between limited and that crime in Germany is “way up” because has to change, not only out of fairness, but him — certainly not the behaved as if that exists at an international level, forced acceptance. of immigrants. also if Europe wants to remain relevant in 66 million who voted for as well as the futility of articulating If Agenda item 7 was as prestig- In effect, the American president was be- world affairs. Hillary or anyone who he thought he human rights from a platform that ious as it is made out to be, it would ing gleeful that the government of the most But the Europeans and members of the supported Obama. was president of operates on different levels in order have operated from a framework that important nation in Europe could collapse, broader Western community can and must Nor has he shown any to maintain the status quo. is independent of the obsolete require- with huge ramifications for the Continent hold firm against Trump’s bullying. The interest in unifying the all Americans, Are we expecting the UNHRC to act ments imposed upon Palestinians to and the trans-Atlantic alliance. But was his United States is not as dominant as Trump nation, or speaking to anyway. differently now that Israel’s greatest ally appease Israel. Any genuine voices tweet just a burst of schadenfreude from wants to believe: The European Union, the nation as a whole. has departed the scene? Probably not. within the international community a mean, impulsive and narcissistic bully? Canada and Asian countries are already Instead, he periodically throws red meat to his overwhelm- Agenda Item 7 has become another fix- face perpetual censorship from the These questions have bedeviled Euro- responding to Trump’s protectionism with ingly white, rural, and older base. ture that serves several interests which dynamics of a system that corrupts any pean leaders, and many Americans, as Mr. separate multilateral trade deals, and they And he has repeatedly shown he couldn’t care less about are, for the major part, incompatible initiative that might have contributed Trump has blithely alienated America’s should do what they can to impress on the Constitution. with Palestinian aspirations. Why are towards change. friends and allies, canceled hard-won ac- American industry the huge cost of a full- So what happens if Trump is about to be removed — by Palestinians expected to rejoice, or feel With the U.S. out of the UNHRC cords, dumped on trade treaties, threatened blown trade war. impeachment or even an election? they have achieved a milestone, simply arena, business will continue as usual. trade wars, lauded ruthless despots and Signatories to the Paris climate accord In early April, Sean Hannity predicted that if impeach- because there is a specific and permanent But unless international institutions are cheered populist demagogues. and to the Iran nuclear deal must likewise ment began, “there’s going to be two sides of this that are discussion at the UNHRC about Israel’s scrutinized, the latest ploy will continue In the end, the “why” hardly matters? keep these pacts alive even without the fighting and dividing this country at a level we’ve never ongoing violations? to be analyzed as a victory for Israel, Trumpism, whatever its genesis, has been United States. seen”—“those that stand for truth and those that liter- If discussions took place alongside while forgetting that the international loosed upon the world, and the question is At every turn, they must proclaim that ally buy into the corrupt deep state attacks against a duly political action to support Palestine, system is geared towards construct- how those who believe in the value — and rules, relations and values assembled over elected president.” Agenda Item 7 would not have been ing Palestine’s defeat, regardless of values — of the postwar order should re- generations do matter and are worth fighting Last summer, Trump consigliore Roger Stone warned disfigured into a farce to be manipu- membership in the UNHRC, or the spond. It has become evident that flattering for. And when they do so, they should keep of “an insurrection like you’ve never seen,” and claimed lated at random. Putting Israel as a existence of Agenda Item 7. For discus- Trump will get you nowhere. Swapping in mind that many influential Americans any politician who voted to oust Trump “would be endan- permanent agenda item is not enough sion of Israel’s violations to exist as an insults, as Donald Tusk, the president of are on their side in opposition to Trump’s gering their own life.” and leaves room for exploitation of aftermath, it is also pertinent to note the European Council, did in May — “With reckless whims, including many Repub- A second civil war? Probably not. But the way Trump purpose. Indeed, less fanfare about that colonial violence will continue to friends like that, who needs enemies?” — licans and even some people within the and his defenders are behaving, it’s not absurd to imagine discussing Israel permanently and take precedence over human rights. may be satisfying, but no more than that. administration. serious social unrest. That’s how low he’s taken us. building an international collective (Source: Middle East Monitor) Europe’s response to Trump must begin (Source: The NYT) (Source: Newsweek) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JUNE 27, 2018 ANALYSIS & INTERVIEW 7 Australia ‘definitely’ committed Aggressors are at peak of weakness in full-scale war to JCPOA: envoy against Yemen trade and investment in both directions. So we By Mehdi Maleki & are still definitely committed. This is the year Mohammad Ali Haqshenas in which we celebrate 50 years of Australian diplomatic representation in Tehran. It’s an TEHRAN (MNA) — Australian Ambassador exciting time for the people-to-people links to Iran Ian Biggs highlighted that his country between our two countries and I continue to be is definitely committed to Joint Comprehen- very hopeful about the future of our relationship. sive Plan of Action (JCPOA). What is your prediction regarding the In an interview with Mehr News corre- future of terrorist groups in our region after spondent, Australian envoy touched upon ISIL defeats in Syria and Iraq? post-JCPOA relations of Iran and Australia. A: Countering terrorism is challenge for the He also talked about terrorism in the entire international community. Australia has region, saying that campaign against ISIL been part of coalition in this region attempting is not yet complete. to defeat ISIL. And we know that Iran has Here is the full text of the interview: also been heavily involved in the campaign. 1 According to al-Emad, 160 mercenaries from the Allied What’s your opinion and prediction I cannot make a prediction of what comes coalition have been captured by the army and popular committees regarding Iran-Australia relations after U.S. next. It’s too soon to say that because they in the West Bank. withdrawal from JCPOA? are not defeated yet. We are still involved in Further, Al-Alam›s news agency reported the death of Major A: We were disappointed when there was that attempting to defeat terrorism in the region, General Engineer Isa Saif ibn Abulan al-Mazrouy, deputy head withdrawal from JCPOA. Australia continues in many countries of the region; we work of the Joint Chiefs Staff of the UAE in the clashes on the Yemeni to be committed to JCPOA and we work closely closely with for example Iraq in the struggle front in the province of Al-Hudaydah. The number of the coalition with the government of the Islamic Republic to involved. Australia is working to ensure that commission in Tehran is now busier than it against terrorism. I wish it was over and we causalities have reached 253 in the past few days. Mohammed ensure that the non-proliferation assurances our companies and our institutions are able has ever been in dealing with enquiries from could talk about what comes next but the Abdul Salam, a spokesman for the Ansarollah movement, also of the deal to be continue to be felt by everyone to engage with Iran and the Australian trade Australian firms and Iranian firms interested in campaign against ISIL is not yet complete. emphasized that all the ways of supporting and assisting the ag- gressive forces in the attack on the Yemeni coast were closed and their blood was shed in ways that they would not have imagined. Little World War Influx of immigrant’s legacy of U.S. military support An important point about the battle of Al-Hudaydah is about the combination of the invaders. In this battle, Ansarollah, along with other revolutionary groups stands on one side and the five-country coalition stands on the other side. The United States, France and for dictators: prof. Britain are involved in this battle. This is while these countries TEHRAN (Tasnim) — An American political scientist have repeatedly called asked other regional players not to inter- said a huge influx of immigrants to America is the legacy of fere. This is in spite of the fact that the United States has been U.S. military and political support for dictators in Central involved in the killing of the people since the beginning of the America. Yemeni war and is now playing a significant role in the battle “The flow of immigrants from Central America is the of Al-Hudaydah. legacy of U.S. support (military, economic, political) for The Guardian reported that the West is helping Saudi Arabia right-wing dictators and their families, under the label of and the United Arab Emirates by advising, guiding and sending supporting stability and anti-communism (counterinsur- military equipment to attack Yemen. The Guardian also wrote that gency policy),” Beau Grosscup, California State University although Britain warned against the attack on Al-Hudaydah, it is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, told the Tasnim responsible for the catastrophe of the war; Saudi Arabia and the News Agency in an interview. Emirates are waging this war with Western military training and Following is the full text of the interview: advice, and they are taking steps in Yemen with the diplomatic On June 23, the United Nations issued a damning support of the West. The Emiratis and Saudis carried out the condemnation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy attacks in Yemen with the help of American, British and French that saw migrant children separated from their parents at armies, and British and American military officers were in the the border, suggesting it “may amount to torture”. What’s command room for these air strikes, Guardian added. your take on this? In fact, the Saudi coalition has not been able to achieve its A: There is no doubt that, given the U.S. Bush-era defi- goals in Yemen over the past three years and is now in such a nition of torture, the Trump Administration will reject this weak position that it can›t undertake any negotiation. Under charge, since the U.S. operational definition requires ‘specific the current circumstances, Al-Hudaydah has been chosen as a intent’ and ‘serious jeopardy, serious impairment to bodily fait-determining battlefield. This is due to a number of reasons: functions, or serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or firstly, the coastal area of Al-Hudaydah is an open plain, and un- part.’ Of course, the UN operates under the international like the northern provinces of Yemen, it›s not mountainous and definition. With National Security Advisor John Bolton, who thus hard to attack. That›s why the Saudi coalition believes that has no use for the UN, expect the Trump Administration to using this, it can easily occupy the Al-Hudaydah. On the other pay no attention to this claim. Yet, the UN is making this the Republican control of Congress. and difficult economic conditions have forced families to hand, all operations have failed to reach the city of Sanaa last claim due to the possibility the children will suffer ‘devel- The UN condemnation comes just days after the leave, migrating north to the U.S. and elsewhere. What’s year, and Saudi Arabia is trying to open another front to reach opmental damage’ as a result of the separation from their United States withdrew its membership from the Human your perspective on this? Sanaa. Another important point is that the Saudi coalition needs family members. Rights Council, saying that the council is against Israel. A: The flow of immigrants from Central America is the a periodic and limited victory for the persuasion of its soldiers. A number of rights groups have questioned Trump’s What do you think about the move by the U.S.? legacy of U.S. support (military, economic, political) for Therefore, under the current conditions of Saudi Arabia and the order, mostly for offering few details on how to deal with A: This was a political decision, again centered in John right-wing dictators and their families, under the label United Arab Emirates, and with the help of the United States, the more than 2,300 children detained by the U.S. govern- Bolton’s (and other Neo-conservatives) disdain for the UN, of supporting stability and anti-communism (counter- France, Britain and the Zionist regime, they seek to occupy the ment since the “zero tolerance” policy was enacted by the in particular, the General Assembly, Security Council and insurgency policy). The economic developmental side Al-Hudaydah. president’s administration in mid-April. What do you think Human Rights Council’s longstanding efforts to hold Israel of that policy has long been abandoned in favor of the It shouldn›t be forgotten that even if the Al-Hudaydah is to be about the zero tolerance policy? accountable for its occupation policy. The more immediate military side (eradication of the ‘disease’ of communism/ occupied by the Saudi coalition, it should not be expected to be a A: The Trump Administration claims that they are only reason has to do with current U.S. desire for ‘regime change’ terrorism). Aided by the ‘reform packages’ of the Inter- great victory for the aggressors on Yemen. However, although 70 following the law and thus have no choice but Zero Toler- in Iran and Venezuela, which is why, in announcing the U.S. national Monetary Fund and international banks, this percent of Yemen›s food is provided from the harbor of Al-Hu- ance, meaning there is no ‘flexibility’ or discretion in its withdrawal, Ambassador Haley pointedly mentioned both U.S. ‘aid’ approach has brought inequality of wealth and daydah, and this port is actually the only way to connect Yemen application. But the Zero Tolerance is a policy and every countries as the greatest violators of human rights. Thus, income (riches to the powerful few and mass poverty to the outside world, but over the past few months, the Saudi policy has a range of applications (using discretion). The the withdrawal is another step in the U.S. desire to develop to the poor), high unemployment, high crime against coalition has prevented any food and medicine from entering Trump Administration has chosen to apply the policy in the a foreign policy unrestrained by international institutional the poor and political/economic impotency for the vast Al-Hudaydah. Therefore, Al-Hudaydah has practically been to no strictest sense because, as they have been very clear about, policy (condemnation), while furthering the effort to ‘isolate’ majority of citizens. In short, they have no choice but to use for Ansarollah in the past few months. Of course the Yemeni they believe it helps with their political agenda in three ways. Iran and Venezuela as pariah states worthy of U.S. unilateral flee or die, especially to a country where they are actively revolutionaries have been able to foil the enemy during the first (1) To discourage families from fleeing their countries and action supported by an ‘ad hoc’ coalition. recruited by corporate America. The current high number week of the war. In the past three years, Ansarollah has repeatedly coming to the U.S. (2), to sustain the image of being ‘tough’ The vast majority of immigrants arriving in the of Honduran refugees reflects the U.S. support for the been tactically retreating in some areas but has quickly released on immigration and border security/terrorism, (3) signal U.S. and facing potential separation are coming from recent fraudulent election and the U.S. support for another occupied territories. to their base and wavering Republicans as to the need to turbulent countries like Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduran dictatorship with all of the obvious results Finally, we should say that Yemen is now the scene of a lit- get out the vote in the November elections in order to keep Honduras. In those countries, high violent crime rates noted above, especially those seeking political asylum. tle world war in which five countries rally against the Yemeni people. This is while U.S. troops are fighting thousands of miles away from their homeland with the Yemeni people who defend their country. The irony is that the United States as the biggest Saudi, UAE resorting to ‘psychological warfare’ to win contributor to regional tensions, has been repeatedly asking Iran battle in Hudaydah: analyst not to make any roles in this regard. TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The founder and The Saudi-led coalition and its mer- other side to the table on their terms, after A: It is certainly in the interest of the at- director of GNOSOS, a UK-based think tank cenaries began a massive operation on June victory in Hudaydah, would relieve them tacking forces to achieve a clean victory and, focused on Syria and the Middle East, said 13 to bring Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah from a costly and unguaranteed campaign therefore, a huge psychological warfare and “Power struggle” expanded Saudi Arabia and the UAE are seeking to under their control. What’s behind this attack? into the Yemeni hinterland, where terrain propaganda operation is in place to force achieve a “clean victory” against popular A: It seems that the Saudi and Emirati would play to the advantage of entrenched Yemeni popular fighters/ Houthis to flee. between Riyadh and Abu fighters in Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah leaderships wish to use whatever resources popular fighters. They also hope to conclude One could imagine that they have a green Dhabi through a “huge psychological warfare”. they have in order to push the Yemeni popular such a victory in Hudaydah in the fastest and light to carry out this operation within a short “It is certainly in the interest of the at- fighters / Houthis to the negotiating table least costly manner. The Houthis, on the time-frame. If the operation lasts much longer tacking forces to achieve a clean victory and, on their own terms. The rationale is that a other side, are also hoping that the battle of than planned, and results in huge human 1 Clashes between Saudi and Emirati mercenaries have therefore, a huge psychological warfare and significant victory in Hudaydah would force Hudaydah would bring the KSA/UAE to the loss and a lot of carnage, especially to the intensified with the formation of the Southern Transitional Council propaganda operation is in place to force the Houthis to succumb to the KSA/UAE negotiating table, but on Houthi terms, as a Hudaydah port facilities, then the attack- of the UAE in Aden. While Saudis and Emirati also have a greedy Yemeni popular fighters/ Houthis to flee,” terms, as they would be deprived from the result of strong resistance that would render ing forces would not achieve their objective. eye on oil and gas resources in southern Yemen. Ammar Waqqaf, a London-based Syrian port facilities in that area, and their strongly the current offensive futile and ultra-costly. Therefore, a fierce media and psychological It is clear that Yemen has sparked a rivalry between Saudi political commentator, told Tasnim in an held areas to the east and north of Hudaydah Some reports indicate that American, warfare offensive is taking place. Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The innocent people in interview. would become cut-off from the outside world. British and French forces are supporting the Do you think that the UN is doing the country are being killed so that the Saudis and Emiratis will Following is the full text of the interview. The KSA/UAE hope that bringing the Saudi and UAE forces in their assault on the enough to stop the war there? achieve their expansionist goals, dominate the strategic areas of port city. What’s your perspective on this? A: Our understanding is that the UN should the country, and exploit its natural wealth, including oil and gas. A: The engagement of such forces is not want to put this tragedy behind their backs The Saudis promised to end disputes with the UAE during clear, but one can expect a tacit approval as soon as possible. However, they are not in an aggressive operation in the city of al-Hudaydah. That›s pre- Public Announcement for from them for the current offensive, at least, a position to influence events on the ground cisely why they arranged the joint high-level meeting a couple if not logistical and intelligence support. At much, and the best they could achieve is to of weeks ago in which the Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Consulting Service any rate, it is well-documented that KSA and try and achieve minimum balance through Salman talked to his UAE counterpart Mohammed bin Zayed UAE use weaponry and munitions that are meditation and focus on humanitarian aid. Al Nahyan. Although the visit was apparently friendly, it did not A construction supervisor in manufactured by these countries, and there The danger is that the UN is now becoming resolve their differences. is nothing to suggest that supply has stopped, frequently a tool to exert pressure on certain The disagreement between the two sides during this joint either throughout the entire war or during sides in conflicts, with threats of cutting off visit let to the failure of the Saudis to dominate the strategic Anzali city for JICA’s Project the current operation. their funding and the guise of avoiding the city of al-Hudaydah. For further information, please contact Some experts say Saudi Arabia and human cost. 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Health Innotech to put Iran cracks down on opportunists spotlight on HIT

TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — The 3rd national Health Inno- desk at cellphone market tech conference will bring health information 1 Following that on Sunday, June 24, many pro- technology (HIT) to the limelight. tested against two major cellphone shopping complexes HIT supports health information management across com- in downtown Tehran. puterized systems and the secure exchange of health informa- On Monday, the minister announced that more tion between consumers, providers, payers, and quality monitors. than 220 million euros have been allocated to forty Iran University of Medical Sciences is responsible for bring- different companies to import cellphones; nevertheless, ing up HIT to the event, the university’s vice chancellor for only 140,000 cellphones (57 million euros) have been research and technology Seyyed Kazem Malakouti said during imported, so far since the beginning of the current a press conference on Sunday, ISNA reported. Iranian calendar year (March 21). Furthermore, he published the list of companies which have received euros at the official rate to import cellphones, yet most of them did not. They went viral on social networks. “Cellphone buyers can find whether their purchase is figured by the official rate or not by dialing *7777# USSD Code,” he said, Fars reported on Monday. If they buy their cellphone at an unreasonable price, they have a right to complain to the Governmental Discretionary Punishments Organization, he added. He said that the ministry cracks down on violators through national cellphone registration scheme, ac- cording to which all commercial importers of cellphones should register the IMEI of their imported goods with the database since November 2015. Iran Customs Administration has imposed a 5-per- At the conference, Malakouti talked about the development cent customs duty on the imports of cellphones and of health technology saying that Iran University of Medical the importers should pay the 9-percent value added Sciences always promote development of health technology. tax (VAT). The national Health Innotech conference will be held from Those devices which are not registered with the July 4 to 6 in Tehran. Medical devices and rehabilitation equip- database will be considered contraband and will be ment, food security and health as well as health information rendered unusable in the country. technology are the main parts of the event. During the event, the head of Iran University of Medical Sciences’ incubation and innovation center Omid Pournik made a short speech. Iran, Indonesia plan to share Biotech production saves Iran The center plans to strengthen connection between health technology startups and activists in different parts of Iran, knowledge in space technology $650m: official Pournik said. Such an alliance between startups and companies leads to productions, which penetrate Iranian as well as world market, he added. In this field, the invested capital is returned in short time and there is no need for large-scale investment, he said. At the ceremony, Mehdi Farhoodi, an official with the National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, explained about a section, which focuses on food industry at the coming edition of Innotech. Innotech plans to provide opportunities to entrepreneurs in the field of food security, he announced. Shahid Beheshti University set up three expert panels com- posed of university professors on standards and permissions in food industry, threats and opportunities of knowledge-based products and entrepreneurial opportunity in food technology. The panels aim to meet the needs of the growing number of startups and emerging companies in food industry. Innotech is an annual conference and exhibition, held by TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — Iran and space industry use and services. TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — By support the country against sanctions the Health Ministry’s department for technology and research, deskIndonesia plan to share ISA suggests strengthening scientific deskmanufacturing 21 with their products. which is built specifically for business and technology executives, and exchange science and technology in and technology ties with other countries in biotechnology products, Iran saves Many of these products and medi- highlighting the region’s innovation and technology development use of space technology in the near future, the field of space technology, Barari said. $650 million [annually], the health cines are currently used in Iran’s hospital opportunities by showcasing pioneering products and services. Mehr reported on Monday. He said that both Iran and Indonesia ministry’s director for health technol- and clinics, he said. The event is cosponsored by the Iran University of Medi- Indonesian National Institute of Aer- are geographically located inside direct ogy development has said. Iran’s health ministry encourages cal Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation onautics and Space (LAPAN) chairman physical threats from natural hazards. Several products which are now in Iranian knowledge-based companies Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Thomas Djamaluddin and Iranian Space “Hence, space technology would be a great market are produced by knowledge-based to attend foreign exhibitions in order and Health Services and Iranian Society of Embryology and Agency (ISA) Director Morteza Barari dis- help in controlling natural disasters,” he said. companies in different fields of cell ther- to find market in international level, Reproductive Biology (ISERB). cussed expansion of relationship during a Barari proposed holding workshops apy, microfluidics, medicine and medical Vatanpour previously announced in a meeting on the sidelines of 61st Commit- and mutual events to share scientific devices, Hossein Vatanpour said, ISNA press release on May 30. SOCIALLY SAFE tee of the United Nations on the Peaceful achievements of two countries. reported on Monday. Six Iranian knowledge enterprises Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), which is ISA also aims to develop scientific He added that currently 52 Iranian which are active in the field of pharma- currently underway in Vienna, Austria. and technological exchanges which knowledge-based companies export ceutical industries will attend Expopharm Limit work history details on At the meeting, Iran and Indonesia lead to support of Iranian space-based their products. 2018, which will be held from October 10 LinkedIn to be safe signed an agreement on development of market, he concluded. He said that Iranian companies can to 13 in Munich, Germany.END

Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Ning, Digg, MeetUp, blogs, etc., -- the number of social networking sites and tools Smart home tech is being used for domestic abuse is exploding. Social networking is the killer app of the Internet The New York Times has an interesting (and horrifying) or blast loud music out of smart speakers home-enabled abuse were women. Connected home gadgets for everyone – not just the texting teenybopper crowd. Such story about how domestic abusers are using the latest home others remotely shut off lights–or turn them on at odd are largely installed by men, said Melissa Gregg, a research sites have breached the walls of the corporate firewall, are a gadgets to inflict new kinds of abuse on their victims. The hours director at Intel working on the implications of smart home part of our most important smartphone apps, are a vital tool Times conducted more than 30 interviews with victims, still others use smart home cameras to spy on their technology. Many women also do not have all the apps on for any serious job search, and are the new way to connect lawyers, and shelter workers who highlighted some of the victims their phones, said Jenny Kennedy, a postdoctoral research with current and new friends. ways home tech is being used for terror: And domestic abuse via smart home gadgets affect women fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, who is abusers use smart thermostats to jack up the heat in a more than men, as the Times notes: researching families that install smart home technology. house to 100 degrees Emergency responders said many victims of smart (Source: fastcompany.com) A checklist for your startup What does ‘knowledge base’ mean?

But using social networking tools and sites seems to be in direct conflict with another important principle of using the Internet – protect your identity from identity theft. Participat- ing in online social networking sites leaves a trail of personal information that can make stealing your identity a whole lot easier. What’s a current-day Internet user to do? Would you put your full resume online for everyone to see? Probably not. It would be too easy for identity thieves to use the information to fill out a loan applica- So you want to start a business – con- or PMV, is its estimated value imme- A knowledge base is a database used for A knowledge base is not merely a space tion, guess a password security question (like hackers gratulations! Once you get over the diately prior to accepting funding. knowledge sharing and management. for data storage, but can be an artificial did with VP candidate Sarah Palins’ Yahoo account) or initial excitement, it’s time to break Every time entrepreneurs seek to It promotes the collection, organization intelligence tool for delivering intelligent de- social engineer their way into your company’s network. down the process of launching your sell ownership in their company in and retrieval of knowledge. Many knowl- cisions. Various knowledge representation Limit your work history details on sites like LinkedIn. If startup into manageable chunks. exchange for financing, they must edge bases are structured around artificial techniques, including frames and scripts, you feel you need the added information to help in a job You might get overwhelmed with figure out PMV. intelligence and not only store data but represent knowledge. The services offered search, expand the details during the job hunting process the sheer number of items on your to- It determines how much ownership find solutions for further problems using are explanation, reasoning and intelligent and then cut back later after you have a position, leaving do list. But not to worry; I’ve broken existing shareholders or members data from previous experience stored as decision support. just enough information to entice recruiters to contact down this startup checklist into the will give investors in exchange for part of the knowledge base. Knowledge-based computer-aided sys- you with interesting new positions. primary tasks you need to do now, and financing. Knowledge management systems de- tems engineering (KB-CASE) tools assist LinkedIn also offers some capabilities to restrict information. those that you can defer until later. Most startups take a lot more pend on data management technologies designers by providing suggestions and You can close off access by others to your network of contacts, Ask yourself: would you buy it? time to get off the ground than you ranging from relational databases to data solutions, thereby helping to investigate the something you don’t have to share if you don’t want. This is Run the numbers: will customers pay expect. Know where your living ex- warehouses. Some knowledge bases are results of design decisions. The knowledge a common practice by sales professionals and recruiters not enough so that you can cover costs penses for the first year will come little more than indexed encyclopedic base analysis and design allows users to wanting to expose their valuable network to others who might and make a profit? from (savings, a job, spouse’s in- information; others are interactive and frame knowledge bases, from which in- poach customers or prospects from them. Figure out the money come, etc.). behave/respond according to the input formative decisions are made. (Source: networkworld.com) A company’s pre-money valuation, (Source: smallbiztrends.com) prompted from the user. (Source: techopedia.com) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JUNE 27, 2018 SCIENCE 11 Electrogeochemistry captures carbon, The coldest temperature ever observed on Earth is produces fuel, offsets ocean acidification bonkers, say scientists

A new study evaluates the potential for as “biomass energy plus carbon capture and As one might expect, the desolate and remote East Antarctic recently described methods that capture storage” (BECCS). This involves growing Plateau is home to Earth’s coldest temperatures. What is sur- carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through trees or other bioenergy crops (which absorb prising, however, is that these bitter temps are even colder than an “electrogeochemical” process that also carbon dioxide as they grow), burning the previously thought — reaching nearly -148 degrees Fahrenheit generates hydrogen gas for use as fuel and biomass as fuel for power plants, capturing (-100 degrees Celsius). creates by-products that can help counteract the emissions, and burying the concentrated ocean acidification. carbon dioxide underground. Limiting global warming to 2 degrees Hydrogen generation Celsius will require not only reducing “BECCS is expensive and energetically emissions of carbon dioxide, but also costly. We think this electrochemical active removal of carbon dioxide from process of hydrogen generation provides the atmosphere. This conclusion from a more efficient and higher capacity way of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate generating energy with negative emissions,” Change has prompted heightened interest Rau said. in “negative emissions technologies.” He and his coauthors estimated that A new study published June 25 in Nature electrogeochemical methods could, on Climate Change evaluates the potential for average, increase energy generation and recently described methods that capture carbon removal by more than 50 times carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through relative to BECCS, at equivalent or lower an “electrogeochemical” process that also cost. He acknowledged that BECCS is farther generates hydrogen gas for use as fuel and along in terms of implementation, with some That’s according to an updated analysis of satellite data first creates by-products that can help counteract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Rau so it’s a two-pronged benefit,” Rau said. “The biomass energy plants already in operation. reported in 2013. At the time, scientists reported observing tem- ocean acidification. and other researchers have developed process simply converts carbon dioxide into Also, BECCS produces electricity rather than peratures of -135 degrees Fahrenheit (-93 degrees Celsius)— Energy production several related methods, all of which involve a dissolved mineral bicarbonate, which is less widely used hydrogen. already the coldest temperatures ever observed on Earth. The First author Greg Rau, a researcher electrochemistry, saline water, and carbonate already abundant in the ocean and helps The “issues are how to supply enough new analysis, which used data collected by NASA’s Terra and in the Institute of Marine Sciences at UC or silicate minerals. counter acidification.” biomass and the cost and risk associated with Aqua satellites and NOAA’s Polar Operational Environmental Santa Cruz and visiting scientist at Lawrence “It not only reduces atmospheric carbon The negative emissions approach that has putting concentrated carbon dioxide in the Satellites during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter between Livermore National Laboratory, said this dioxide, it also adds alkalinity to the ocean, received the most attention so far is known ground and hoping it stays there,” Rau said. 2004 and 2016, turned up even lower lows within small pockets technology significantly expands the options The electrogeochemical methods have buried six to nine feet deep in the ice surface on the southern for negative emissions energy production. been demonstrated in the laboratory, but side of Antarctica’s frigid high ridges. The process uses electricity from a Researchers have developed several more research is needed to scale them up. Clear winter skies and bone-dry air create the ideal weather renewable energy source for electrolysis related methods, all of which involve The technology would probably be limited conditions for fostering these frigid temperatures. Since cold of saline water to generate hydrogen and to sites on the coast or offshore with access air is denser than the warmer air above it, it moves downwards, oxygen, coupled with reactions involving electrochemistry, saline water, and to saltwater, abundant renewable energy, collecting in hollows and getting even colder still if conditions globally abundant minerals to produce a carbonate or silicate minerals. and minerals. are favorable. solution that strongly absorbs and retains (Source: Science Daily) This new record reminds us that we’re still discovering some basic things about our planet, including exactly how cold it can get. As lead study author Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Water may not be the only sign of alien life, team suggests Ice Data Center noted in a press release, the revised temperatures are likely bumping up against that limit: clear skies and dry air When it comes to looking for alien life, On Earth, a major source of phosphorus need to persist several days to reach these unfathomable lows. scientists mostly focus on where there in oceans is via the weathering of so-called When temperatures fall below a certain point, the air cools more is water. Now researchers suggest that felsic rock by mildly acidic rainwater. slowly; weather conditions change before even lower temperatures looking at “bioessential” elements such as Phosphorus is in turn removed from Earth’s can be reached. (Source: earther.com) phosphorus and molybdenum could help seas by hydrothermal activity; prior work judge a world’s potential for life. suggests hydrothermal activity exists on There is life virtually wherever there is Enceladus and presumably Europa as well, water on Earth, from clouds high above the researchers said. Engineers create new the surface to the deepest layer of Earth’s Radiation from Jupiter constantly design for ultra-thin crust. As such, the search for life outside bathes Europa’s surface, generating Earth typically concentrates on worlds that molecules known as oxidants, and capacitive sensors are “habitable,” possessing temperatures as Europa’s icy surface churns, these conducive to hosting liquid water on its oxidants can enter Europa’s hidden seas, As part of ongoing acoustic research at Binghamton University, surface. where they can react with sulfides and State University at New York Distinguished Professor Ron Miles For example, although the surface of make the water highly acidic. As such, has created a workable sensor with the least possible resistance Venus is currently hot enough to melt lead, Europa may possess enough phosphorus to motion. The thin and flexible sensor is ideal for sensing sounds a 2016 study suggested it may have been to support life, although highly acidic because it can move with the airflow made by even the softest habitable until as recently as 715 million oceans might stifle chances for life, the noises and addresses issues with accelerometers, microphones years ago. Scientists have even conjectured researchers said. and many other similar sensors. that if life once existed on Venus, it still In contrast, previous research suggested The “goal was to create a sensor that only resists gravity,” might survive within its clouds. the underground oceans of Enceladus may said Miles. The “sensor needed to stay connected to the device However, “there are of course other and RNA. Several recent studies suggest accessible they might be on worlds with be strongly alkaline. In the new study, the but other than that, I wanted it to move with even the slightest ingredients needed for life as we know the increased availability of phosphorus liquid oceans underneath their frozen scientists calculated that if a world’s oceans sounds or movement of the air.” it,” said study senior author Avi Loeb, in the oceans about 635 million to 800 surfaces, much like Jupiter’s moon Europa are either neutral or alkaline and possess Being able to move with the air is how sensors are able to tell chair of astronomy at Harvard University million years ago may have even helped and Saturn’s moon Enceladus. “People hydrothermal activity, “phosphorus may be when a sound is present and which direction it is coming from. in Cambridge. For example, on Earth, support the evolution of animals on Earth, suspect there may be life in liquid water entirely removed from the subsurface ocean Miles made headway with acoustic sensors in 2017 by using elements that are key to how much life the researchers noted. under the ice in Europa and Enceladus, world in a very short timescale compared spider silk dipped in gold as a thin, flexible sensor to make a mi- oceans hold may include nitrogen and Bioessential elements and both NASA and ESA (the European to the age of the solar system -- millions crophone with remarkably flat frequency response. This sensor phosphorus. Nitrogen is needed to To see what roles such bioessential Space Agency) have plans to visit them of years,” said study lead author Manasvi incorporated a magnet in order to convert the silk motion into create proteins, and both nitrogen and elements might play in the evolution of with missions such as Europa Clipper 1,” Lingam, an astrophysicist at Harvard. an electronic signal. phosphorus are key ingredients of DNA alien life, the researchers focused on how Loeb said. (Source: space.com) As an alternative to using a magnet, Miles set out to create a capacitive sensor. Instead of needing a magnet, a capacitive sensor requires a voltage added to it via electrodes. Two billion capacitive microphones are produced every year but Bank Pasargad Joins Association of Iranian Banks in Europe making them both small and effective comes with some challenges. Bank Pasargad joined the Association of of strengthening economic and banking Bank of Iran (CBI) and Monetary-Banking His new platform provides a way to detect the motion of ex- Iranian banks in Europe-Frankfurt, the relationship as well as facilitating trade Research Center, five public banks, one tremely thin fibers or films by sensing changes in an electric field Public Relations Dept. of the bank reported. between Iran and Europe. semi-public bank and one private bank without the use of a magnet. The Association of Iranian Banks in Some beneficiary real entities and have got membership in this Association, It hasn’t previously been feasible to use capacitive sensing Europe is an independent institution which companies are able to get membership in the Public Relations Dept. of the bank on extremely flexible, thin materials because they’ve needed to was set up in Germany in 2017 with the aim this Association. Presently, except Central concluded. resist electrostatic forces that can either damage them or impede their movement. “Researchers want the sensor to move with small forces from sound, without being affected by the electrostatic forces,” Miles said. Two Acid Projects, Costing $340m, to Be Inaugurated by Yearend: IMIDRO Chief (Source: phys.org) Acid project, costing $340 million, will be launched in the maintained. copper industry of the country, Public Relations Dept. of Moreover, Kahnouj Titanium Project will be launched in the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and western part of Kerman Province with the aim of producing Lobsters are not immortal, Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) reported. 30,000 tons of titanium concentrate and also 70,000 tons Copper concentrate production capacity in the country of titanium slag, he said, adding, “this giant project has they actually die an will increase by 500,000 tons. generated new employment opportunities in the region.” Mehdi Karbasian, CEO of IMIDRO made the above Elsewhere in his remarks, Karbasian pointed to open- exhausting death remark and revealed the inauguration of two acid project ing Letter of Credit (L/C) for graphite electrode project A Twitter thread is making more people aware that while lob- in Sarcheshmeh and Khatounabad before the termination and stated, “given the organizing an expert-level session sters can live for hundreds of years, they actually die in a rather of the current Iranian calendar year in 1397 (to end March in the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, problem of morbid manner. 20, 2019). opening Letter of Credit (L/C) for the graphite electrode Lobsters are known for their long lives. The oldest lobster ever He put the total value of these two projects at $340 million. was taken into consideration as the main requirement of caught was estimated to be 140 years old. In 2017, a 120-year- In his visit to the expansion projects of copper industry in steel manufacturing process.” old lobster was found staying at a seafood restaurant in New Kerman Province, he said, “Sarcheshmeh Acid Project will In conclusion, IMIDRO chief said, “last year, we wit- York for 20 years. Khatounabad Acid Project will be launched with the be launched with investment of $190 million in Rafsanjan nessed the inauguration of mineral and industrial projects, As lobsters age, they also tend to grow bigger and heavier. investment of $150 million by the yearend, Karbasian Special Economic Zone.” costing about $2 billion.” The 140-year-old lobster weighed 44 pounds. In 2012, fishermen caught a lobster in Maine that weighed 27 pounds or about the size of a toddler. Because of lobsters’ long life, the species were thought to NICICO Launches Development Project at Rafsanjan Special Economic Zone be immortal or that they only die when caught and made food. At the initiative taken by the National Baniasadirad, Member of the Board of to the downstream industries.” However, as one Twitter user pointed out, lobsters die through Iranian Copper Industries Company Directors of NICICO Ali Mohammadi, Launching expansion project in a process called “molting.” (NICICO), ground was broken for the representative of people of Rafsanjan downstream projects will generate more The now-viral Twitter thread explained that for lobsters to construction of expansion project of and Anar in the Parliament Ahmad employment opportunities which is in accommodate their immense sizes as they age, they need to get Rafsanjan Special Economic Zone on a Mohammadi Anaraki as well as some line with materializing most objectives rid of their exoskeletons occasionally. The process of getting rid land area as large as 1800 ha, the Public other provincial officials. of resistance economy, he reiterated. of their exoskeletons is called molting. It happens forcefully, far Relations Dept. of the company reported. Karbasian was the first speaker in The important point here is this that from natural shedding of skin among other species. The ground-breaking ceremony the inaugural ceremony of this giant Copper Pension Fund (CPF) is an eco- For lobsters to molt, they first need to reduce the size of their was launched in the presence of CEO project and said, “I express my special nomic enterprise which is offering quality extremities by drawing water from their own bodies. This way, of Iranian Mines and Mining Industries thanks to the CEO of NICICO and Cop- services to the pensioners and retirees their old shells will not be too tight. Their shells will then break Development and Renovation Organiza- per Pension Fund (CPF) for launching of the Fund, Karbasian maintained. between the tail and their bodies. tion (IMIDRO) Mehdi Karbasian, CEO expansion project of Rafsanjan Special In the end, CEO of IMIDRO once In humans, the bodies lose some part of their telomeres each of the National Iranian Copper Indus- Economic Zone on a land area as large again seized this opportunity to express in materializing most objectives of the time a human cell divides. Essentially, as humans age and grow, tries Co. (NICICO) Mohammad-Reza as 1,800 ha, 500 ha of which is related his special thanks to officials at NICICO resistance economy in the current year. they lose a significant amount of telomeres until the cells could no longer divide. (Source: Tech Times) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 12 SOCIETY JUNE 27, 2018 Climate change alarm bells ringing: Ozone a major pollutant in Tehran during spring, Temperature rises across Iran over spring summer ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — All Iranian gas emissions by 4% percent in 2030. Howev- desk ENVIRONMENT TEHRAN — Heavy pollution in Tehran has provinces experienced an er, subject to termination and non-existence deskpersisted during spring and summer due to average 0.8 degrees on the Celsius scale of unfair and brutal sanctions, availability the rise of ozone gas index (O3), which is mainly caused by motor temperature rise over spring compared of international resources in the form of vehicles’ emitted particles, an official with Air Quality Control to the long-term mean, the director of financial support and technology transfer, Company has said. the national center for drought and crisis exchange of carbon credits, accessibility of management, affiliated to Meteorological bilateral or multilateral implementation Organization, has said. mechanisms, transfer of clean technolo- The long-term mean temperature in spring gies as well as capacity building, Iran has was 20.3 degrees on the Celsius scale na- the potential of mitigating greenhouse gas tionwide, ISNA news agency quoted Sadeq emission up to 12%. Ziaeian as saying on Monday. Iranian officials are having doubt about Unfortunately, none of the provinces ratifying Paris climate accord saying that by experienced a drop in temperatures over ratifying the Paris agreement, Iran should spring, Ziaeian said, adding that provinces make commitments which might put the of Tehran, Hamedan, and Markazi saw the country into significant expenses and that smallest variations in mean temperatures the deal may act against our national inter- relatively speaking. est and that’s why we should proceed with Meanwhile, province of Sistan and Bal- extreme caution. uchestan with 1.3°C temperature rise and However, the temperature rise, lower provinces of Bushehr, Kerman and Khuzestan precipitation levels and never-ending drought all with 1.2°C increase in temperature set The temperature rise, lower precipitation spells in some provinces are all premonitions the record high for the hottest temperatures levels and never-ending drought spells in of a warmer and waterless future. Over the past three days, Tehran’s air quality index reached during spring, he explained. Jonathan Lynn, head of communications a level which is unhealthy for sensitive groups, ISNA quoted Commenting on the long-term mean some provinces are all premonitions of a and media relations at Intergovernmental Hossein Shahbazi as saying on Tuesday. temperature in the Iranian calendar month warmer and waterless future. Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the in- By the end of the cold season, air pollution in Tehran was of Khordad (May 22-June 21) being 25.2°C ternational body for assessing the science thought to be reduced, but days with unhealthy air pollution the official highlighted that provinces of nationwide in the country and climate change for around 28.21 percent of global CO2 related to climate change - told the Tehran increased during spring and summer, he added. Khuzestan, Kerman and Yazd with 1.8, is certainly to blame, he warned, stating, if emissions in 2016. Ranked as the 8th Times in June that climate is a global phe- He further noted that air quality of the capital deterio- 1.7 and 1.5 Centigrade temperature rise the current trends for production of green- largest producer of carbon dioxide Iran nomenon, it doesn’t stop at borders, every rated during spring compared to the past two years, due to were the hottest provinces over the last houses gasses continue the precipitation accounted for 1.72 percent of the carbon country is vulnerable to climate change. increase in O3. month of spring. levels will keep dropping. dioxide worldwide that year. He further explained that tackling cli- In recent years, the concentrations of ozone have not been Alarm bell of climate change for How to respond to climate Paris Climate Agreement, also known as mate change isn’t just a burden, it’s also an so high, and air pollution [in summer] has been mostly due officials change? Paris climate accord, is an agreement within opportunity as adjusting the economies to to sand and dust storms, Shahbazi remarked. Earlier in month of Bahman (January The global increases in carbon dioxide the United Nations Framework Convention climate change lead to new business oppor- Unfortunately, over the past two years, the concentration of 21-February 19) Davood Parhizkar, direc- concentration are due primarily to fossil on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with tunities to take and there are new jobs in ozone has risen through cars emitting particles, he regretted, tor of Iran’s Meteorological Organization, fuel use and land use change. According to greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, ad- green economies. adding, “air pollution caused by mobile sources affects the said that heads of the executive, legislative, NASA humans have increased atmospheric aptation, and finance starting in the year “So it’s not just that you have to spend capital’s air quality in the summer as well”. and judicial branches of government, min- CO2 concentration by more than a third 2020. The Agreement aims to address the money to deal with climate change it’s some- Over the past few days “beside high concentrations of ozone isters and heads of parliament groups are all since the Industrial Revolution began. This global climate change threat by keeping a thing that you should want to do because it near ground level, airborne dust particles were the other factor provided with Intergovernmental Panel on is the most important long-lived forcing of global temperature rise this century well will bring you other benefits and if you do added to the air pollution,” he explained Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report. climate change. below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-indus- nothing then you will face the costs. Doing At ground-level, ozone is a pollutant, but in the strato- There are no high ranking officials who According to the figures published on the trial levels and to pursue efforts to limit nothing is not an option. sphere it screens UV radiation. Ozone is one of the conventional are not informed about the onset of climate Statistics Portal Iran is among the largest the temperature increase even further to “At the moment we have the possibility (criteria) pollutants, which produce the highest volume of change in the country, Parhizkar noted, add- producers of energy-related carbon dioxide 1.5 degrees Celsius. of adapting to climate change. But if we do pollutants in the air and the most serious threat for human ing “We have rang the alarm bells of climate emissions in 2016, based on their share of Doing nothing is not an option nothing and let it carry on we will reach a health and welfare. change for the officials.” global energy-related CO2 emissions. Iran has submitted Intended Nationally point where we can no longer adapt and Ozone in the lower atmosphere is formed by the reaction of Over the past 50 years the average pre- As per the report China is the biggest Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the when you can no longer adapt then the only sunlight on air containing hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides cipitation has decreased by 50 millimeters emitter of carbon dioxide as it accounted UNFCCC committing to cut the greenhouse option is to suffer,” the IPCC official warned. that react to form ozone directly at the source of the pollution or many kilometers down wind. Cars, industry, gas vapors, chemical solvents, fuel combustion increase ozone production. 110,000 undocumented Afghans $9.5b needed to retrofit, rebuild Half of emission of HC and NOx in cities is by motor vehicles. Some of main health effects of ozone are lung inflammation, studying in Iran dilapidated schools in Iran reduced lung elasticity, transient cough, chest pain, throat SOCIETY TEHRAN — Some SOCIETY TEHRAN — A sum irritation and nausea. Other Effects are damages on plants and desk110,000 undocu- deskof 400 trillion rials material like: retard the growth, effect on pollen germination, mented Afghan students are going to (nearly $9.5 billion) is needed to ret- reduce photosensitize, crack rubber, and react with fabric. schools in Iran, head of the international rofit and rebuild dilapidated school affairs department of the Ministry of in Iran, head of a charity association Education has said. tasked with building schools has said. LEARN ENGLISH All the undocumented Afghan students Unfortunately the government who have health permit and a statement cannot allocate such a budget to ret- The Weekend - The Zodiac from Interior Ministry are able to enroll in rofit or rebuild school building, Amir schools in Iran, Fars news agency qouted Ne’mat Baniadam said, Fars reported and Horoscopes Gholamreza Karimi as saying on Tuesday. The guidelines stating the enroll- on Tuesday. said that the highest number of old Following a decree issued by the Lead- ment of foreign national students for Some one fourth of educational and dilapidated schools in Iran are in Angela: Hey Lydia, what are you reading? er of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah the upcoming school year (starting on spaces in the country are dilapidat- the capital with some of them aging Lydia: I’m looking at my horoscope for this month! My outlook Seyyed Ali Khamenei in May 2015, all September 23) will be formulated and ed, he, said, adding that out of 6,000 80 to 100 years old. is very positive. It says that I should take a vacation to someplace foreign nationals, even those who have approved by next week, he noted. schools in Tehran some 800 schools Despite the fact that these schools exotic, and that I will have a passionate summer! no identification and are living in Iran There are 453,000 foreign national are old. are listed as ‘ramshackle schools’ they Angela: What are you talking about? Let me see that. . . What illegally, are allowed to attend schools students in Iran of which 419,000 are In April director general of Tehran still admit students annually and no one are horoscopes? in Iran. afghan nationals, Karimi said. education department Abbasali Baqeri seems to care unless a disaster strike. Lydia: It’s a prediction of your month, based on your zodiac sign. You have a different sign for the month and date you were born in. I was born on April 15th, so I’m an Aries. When were you born? Iranian traditional medicine can beat non-communicable diseases Angela: January 5th. SOCIETY TEHRAN — The Iranian traditional with the modern medicine, he said, adding that experts diseases, tend to be of long duration and are the result of Lydia: Let’s see. . . you’re a Capricorn. It says that you will desk be feeling stress at work, but you could see new, exciting de- medicine has already gained the capability of both sectors should cooperate to provide patients with a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental velopments in your life. Looks like we’ll both have interesting of treating non-communicable diseases (NCDs), Shahid treatments. and behavioral factors. summers! Beheshti University of Medical Sciences chancellor has said. Referring to the current economic burden largely im- The main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases Angela: That’s bogus. I don’t feel any stress at work, and my life is Mohammad Aqajani made the remarks at a ceremony posed on the health sector, Aqajani noted that there is (like heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory practically nonexistent. This zodiac stuff is all a bunch of nonsense. for inauguration of the traditional medicine department an opportunity to treat diseases alternatively with use diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Lydia: No it’s not, your astrology sign can tell you a lot about director, Fars reported on Tuesday. of traditional medicine, as it can replace some expensive and asthma) and diabetes. your personality. See? It says that an Aries is energetic and loves Regarding the impacts of modern lifestyle on the peo- medicines with severe side effects commonly used in As per the data collected by WHO non-communicable to socialize. ple’s health, reforming and improving lifestyle patterns modern medicine. diseases kill 40 million people each year, equivalent to Angela: Well, you certainly match those criteria, but they’re so has become a priority which can be done by practicing He also stated that the main places to propound the 70% of all deaths globally. broad they could apply to anyone. What does it say about me? traditional medicine, Aqajani said. alternative medicine using traditional medicine methods Each year, 15 million people die from a NCD between Lydia: A Capricorn is serious-minded and practical. She likes to Traditional medicine can play a significant role in are universities and colleges. the ages of 30 and 69 years and over 80% of these “prema- do things in conventional ways. Ha, ha, ha… That sounds just treating different diseases, but should move alongside Noncommunicable diseases, also known as chronic ture” deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. like you! Key vocabulary horoscope: future predictions based on person’s birth ENGLISH IN USE outlook: forecast; the way that a person thinks about things zodiac: 12 imaginary areas in the sky LEARN NEWS TRANSLATION Aries: the first sign of the zodiac Capricorn: the 10th sign of the zodiac astrology: the study of how the positions of the stars affect our being 3 million Iranians have organ Supplementary vocabulary 3 میلیون نفر در کشور کارت اهدا عضو دریافت کردند psychic: a person who professes an ability to perceive information donor cards hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception tarot: Any of a set of cards depicting vices, virtues, and elemental فرحنــاز صــادق بیگــی مســئول واحــد فراهــم آوری اعضــا بیمارســتان مســیح دانشــوری Some three million Iranians have organ donor cards and some 10 percent forces, used in fortunetelling. have signed online consent forms for organ donation, Farahnaz Sadeq- اظهارداشــت: تاکنــون 3 میلیــون نفــر از افــراد کشــور کارت اهــداء عضــو دریافــت کــرده انــد و fortune teller: A person that is able to predict your future by 10 درصــد از افــراد کشــور در ســامانه هــای مختلفــی کــه در جهــت اعــام رضایــت در زمینــه اهــدای ,reading cards or your hands Beigi, head of organ procurement program in Masih Daneshvari Hospital عضــو راه انــدازی شــده ثبــت نــام کــرده انــد. .voodoo: a religious tradition originating in West Africa, also a national research institute for tuberculosis and lung diseases, has said وی تصادفــات رانندگــی را شــایع تریــن علــت مــرگ مغــزی دانســت و گفــت: ســالیانه 4 هــزار ,called black magic Traffic accidents are the main reasons of brain deaths in Iran, she said oracle: a person or agency considered to be a source of wise lamenting that out of 4,000 brain deaths reported by forensics only 1,000 مــورد مــرگ مغــزی در کشــور ثبــت مــی شــود کــه ســال گذشــته تنهــا 1000 نفــر از ایــن افــراد counsel or prophetic opinion قابلیــت اهــدای عضــو را داشــته انــد. .donate their organs

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I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JUNE 27, 2018 WORLD IN FOCUS 13 Two Israeli missiles strike near Taliban rejects pleas by Afghan elders for a ceasefire Damascus airport extension The Taliban on Monday rejected pleas by Afghan elders and Syrian army enters strategic town near Jordanian border activists for an extension of this month’s ceasefire and said they Syrian army forces have regained control came down near Damascus international amounted to a call for surrender to foreign forces. of the Laja area in Dara’a Province from the airport.” Takfiri terrorists, the first major gain in its The so-called Syrian Observatory for Hu- liberation operation in the southwestern man Rights confirmed the incident claiming areas near the Jordanian border. that the missiles had targeted an Hezbollah Media run by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and arms depot located close to the airport. the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdel Rahman added that the said on Tuesday that the Syrian army troops missiles landed “without causing huge had managed to push the Takfiri Hayat explosions.” Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorists out of The Tel Aviv regime has recently increased the area, including the strategic town of its airstrikes in the Arab nation. The Syri- Busra al-Harir. an government has on multiple occasions On Saturday, Syrian government forc- slammed the Israeli regimes aggression es liberated the villages of al-Bustan and actions and also warned about the “dan- al-Shumariya in Dara’a’s eastern countryside. gerous repercussions” of Israeli assaults Syria’s southwest region is strategical- on its territories. ly sensitive because of its proximity to the Israel is widely believed to have been frontiers with both Jordan and the Israe- providing weapons to anti-Damascus li-occupied Golan Heights. ‘Thousands flee fighting pected that the number of displaced people militants as well as medical treatment to The territory’s return to the Syrian govern- towards Jordan’ nearly double with an escalation in violence. Takfiri elements wounded in Syria inside ment control would cut the much-reported Meanwhile, the United Nations said that Israeli missiles strike Damascus the occupied Golan Heights. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid dismissed the collaboration between Israel and militants at least 45,000 people are heading towards Two Israeli missiles have hit a location The Syrian army has taken full control of peace “slogans” and urged civil society activists and others and deal a blow to Tel Aviv’s plans to consoli- the border with Jordan amid intensified near the Syrian capital Damascus’ inter- the Lajat region in Dara’a in its latest push not to join movements he said played into the hands of U.S. date its grip on the Golan Heights, which has fighting in Dara’a. national airport, says Syrian state media. to drive out foreign-backed militants from and international forces the Taliban wants to force from been used by the regime to treat wounded Bettina Luescher, spokeswoman of the According to Syria’s state news agency the country’s south. the country. militants for years. UN’s World Food Program said WFP ex- SANA on early Tuesday, “two Israeli missiles (Source: Pragencies “They are not speaking about the occupation or the with- drawal of foreigners. Their objective is that we lay down our weapons and accept the regime imposed by the invaders,” he said in a statement. EU urges ceasefire in Yemen’s Hudaydah amid Saudi-led offensive A truce over the three day Eid al-Fitr festival this month, 1 The EU ministers urged “all parties to the con- The offensive, however, failed to achieve its goal, thanks international organizations,” said Ibrahim Sharaf al-Din, during which unarmed Taliban fighters mingled with soldiers flict to ensure the protection of civilians and fully respect to firm resistance mounted by Yemeni troops and Houthi a humanitarian affairs officer in Sana’a. and civilians in the capital Kabul and other cities has given fresh international humanitarian law, including unimpeded hu- fighters in defense of the city. The crowded environment coupled with hot weather impetus to the calls for peace, although many also dismiss the manitarian access and safe passage for those who want to Hudaydah ‘in state of terror’ has caused the spread of skin and respiratory illnesses at ceasefire as a Taliban trick. escape the fighting.” Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Yemenis have fled the shelter. A small group of peace marchers who came to Kabul on foot They called on the Saudi-led coalition to ensure the free Hudaydah and crammed into a temporary shelter in the “The most common symptom is skin rash, with a from the southern province of Helmand this month have also and rapid passage of ships containing humanitarian supplies. capital, Sana’a. large number of patients. And the second is respira- gained prominence, with pleas to all sides to end a conflict that “The EU is deeply concerned with the impact of ongoing A school has been opened to serve as one of the shel- tory infection. Among the displaced people there are has now lasted for 40 years. hostilities, including bombardments in densely populated ters as students are on their summer vacation. The last a lot of children suffering from malnutrition. Most of “Tribal elders may not be able to bring about peace and create areas, the besieging of cities, the use of anti-personnel two days have seen a sharp rise in the number of people them didn’t receive any vaccination. We are trying our a ceasefire to the whole country but they can for their own districts mines and cluster munitions, as well as attacks causing coming for shelter. best to help them,” said Ahmed Baadani, a medical and they will,” said Dawlat Wazir, an elder in Jani Khil district the destruction of civilian infrastructure including schools, “Hudaydah was in a state of terror. Everyday there worker in Sana’a. in the eastern province of Paktia. medical facilities, residential areas, markets, water systems, are people fleeing the city. We arrived here a week ago Saudi Arabia and allies launched the war on Yemen in In Jani Khil, elders held a meeting that drew hundreds of ports and airports,” the statement said. when there were few people. Now it is crowded with 2015 to reinstate a Riyadh-loyal former regime. More than people at the weekend, calling on the government and Taliban The statement came after the UN’s Yemen envoy Mar- people coming from Hudaydah,” said Nasser al-Haddad, 10,000 people have died in the war, which has entered its forces to refrain from fighting in their area. tin Griffiths briefed them on the worsening humanitarian a displaced resident. fourth year. “We are so fed up with operations by government forces in situation in Yemen. Yemeni cities like Sana’a are preparing more shelters The war and blockade have caused famine across Yemen. our areas that trigger fighting for days,” said Malek Sakhto, one Earlier this month, Saudi-backed forces began an all- for people arriving from the western coast region and there The United Nations says a record 22.2 million Yemenis are of the elders behind the meeting. “We’re pleading with the gov- out assault to seize Hudaydah, through which the bulk of is a dire need for humanitarian aid. in need of urgent food aid. ernment and the Taliban to agree on a ceasefire and stop killing international humanitarian aid enters war-torn Yemen. “So far we have received about 5,000 families each with Several Western countries, in particular the United States each other and civilians.” Saudi Arabia and its allies have already placed an all-out six members according to the international standard. So and Britain, have been supplying the Saudis with advanced The success of such local initiatives is mixed and may stand embargo on other Yemeni border terminals. the total number is big. We are seeking assistance from the weapons and military equipment during the invasion. little chance as military operations pick up. President Ashraf Ghani ordered government forces to stop offensive operations against the Taliban for another 10 days after the end of the ceasefire but there has since been fierce fighting Bahraini court jails three dissidents, Cyprus mulls Israeli request in several areas. In Logar, to the south of the capital Kabul, local elders and strips them of citizenship of port for Gaza religious scholars have been trying to arrange a ceasefire in Azra A Bahrain court has sentenced three po- Cyprus said Tuesday it is examining district, according to Abdul Wali, a member of the Logar pro- litical dissidents to jail and revoked their an Israeli request to build a port fa- vincial council. nationality as the ruling Al Khalifah re- cility on the island for the delivery of He said an informal accord had been reached but local gime presses ahead with its heavy-handed goods to Palestinians of the blockaded people were still waiting for an official announcement from clampdown on the majority community Gaza Strip. the Taliban shadow governor for Logar, Muallah Ismail in the Persian Gulf kingdom. The head “There is no agreement on this issue” Akhondzada. of the Public Prosecution in Bahrain Issa but “there is a relevant request that is under In Kunar province, on the border with Pakistan, another al-Ruwayi said the Fourth High Crimi- consideration”, deputy government spokes- group of walkers is making its way to Kabul, a statement from nal Court found the defendants guilty of woman Klelia Vassiliou told reporters. the governor’s office said. “joining a terrorist group, possession of According to Israeli media, Israel’s (Source: Reuters) explosives and weapons without a license daily basis ever since a popular uprising began Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman a spokesman for his office told AFP. and training in the use of munitions.” in the country in mid-February 2011. They are made the proposal for the Palestinian “Any idea presented to improve the hu- The court sentenced one of the convicts demanding that the Al Khalifah dynasty territory during a visit last week to the manitarian situation would be conditioned UK moves to bolster powers to life imprisonment, while two others were relinquish power and allow a just system eastern Mediterranean island. on solving the issue of the captives (Israelis given three-year jail terms over alleged in- representing all Bahrainis to be established. Under the plan, a special pier would be held in Gaza) and MIAs,” or soldiers gone of chemical weapons body volvement in the bombing of an oil pipeline Manama has gone to great lengths to constructed for cargo ships carrying goods missing there since 2014. in the village of Buri. They were also stripped clamp down on any sign of dissent. On bound for Gaza, around 400 kilometers “Beyond that we can’t provide details.” Britain moved to bolster the global chemical weapons organiza- of their nationality. The development came March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia from Cyprus. Israel controls two land crossings into tion on Tuesday, calling for its members to vote on a proposal to only a day after Bahraini courts revoked the and the United Arab Emirates were de- “They would be checked with the help of Gaza and Egypt controls a third. give it new powers to identify those responsible for attacks with citizenship of five people. ployed to assist Bahrain in its crackdown. an Israeli monitoring mechanism to ensure The Rafah crossing on the Egyptian banned poison munitions. Two of the defendants were convicted Scores of people have lost their lives and that no weapons were being smuggled” into border is often closed, and it is not de- The call for a vote was made at a special session of the Organ- on terrorism charges, and also slapped hundreds of others sustained injuries or Gaza, controlled by the Islamic movement signed for the passage of cargo as most ization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), where with lengthy prison terms. got arrested as a result of the Al Khalifah Hamas, the Jerusalem Post newspaper commercial and humanitarian goods more than 140 countries have gathered to discuss the watchdog’s Three others were found guilty of mem- regime’s crackdown. On March 5, 2017, said. It said the cargo would then likely enter Gaza through the Kerem Shalom future. A vote will be held on Wednesday. bership in the opposition February 14 Youth Bahrain’s parliament approved the trial of be sent to Gaza directly by ferry since the post with Israel. The British are seeking to fill a gap in implementing an inter- Coalition, and stripped of their citizenship. civilians at military tribunals in a measure enclave lacks a port large enough for the Goods that arrive by ship travel by truck national ban on chemical weapons, the use of which has become The Salam for Democracy and Human blasted by human rights campaigners as docking of cargo ships. Lieberman’s office from Israeli ports to the Strip. systematic in the Syrian war, but has also been seen in Iraq, Rights, a rights campaigning group based in being tantamount to imposition of an un- commented on the proposal on Tuesday. The international community has heav- Malaysia and Britain since 2012. Britain, stated on Tuesday that the ruling Al declared martial law countrywide. “The defense minister and security ily criticized the restrictions, including “For clarity, I am now requesting that the chair, immediately Khalifah regime has stripped 738 Bahraini Bahraini monarch King Hamad bin establishment, along with elements security curbs that Israel has imposed on after my remarks, asks the meeting whether the United King- nationals of their citizenship since 2012. Isa Al Khalifah ratified the constitutional in the international community, are Gaza since Hamas seized control of the dom’s text can be adopted by consensus,” said Frederick Curzon, Thousands of anti-regime protesters have amendment on April 3 last year. leading many initiatives aimed at territory in 2007. Britain’s minister of state for defense. held demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost (Source: Press TV) changing the reality in the Gaza Strip,” (Source: AFP) “If a consensus is not possible I request that the chair schedule a vote of the conference of states parties in exactly 24 hours.” Russia, Iran and Syria immediately objected to the move Battle for control of U.S. Congress advances in seven states and accused the British of breaking OPCW rules. The con- A bitterly personal matchup in New York Republican Michael Grimm, fresh off a prison Democratic battles for governor is the latest test of Trump’s ference chairman said the British call for a vote was in line between a convicted felon seeking to re- term for tax fraud, a chance to return to his Voters in upstate New York will pick sway among party voters. The president with procedures. claim his congressional seat from a former old seat in Congress, three years after he among seven Democrats in one of this campaigned on Monday alongside Gov- The 20-year-old OPCW, which oversees a 1997 treaty banning prosecutor is among dozens of key races in resigned following his guilty plea. year’s most expensive House campaigns. ernor Henry McMaster, who is in a tight the use of toxins as weapons, is a technical, scientific body which seven U.S. states on Tuesday, as voters pick The race has seen the candidates trade Republican first-term incumbent John Faso nominating battle with businessman John determines whether chemical weapons were used. candidates for November elections that will personal insults and accusations of lying, is considered vulnerable in November, and Warren. The winner is likely to prevail in But it does not have the authority to identify per- determine control of Congress. with Trump’s presence looming above it all. his potential challengers have collectively November. petrators. Voters in Colorado, Maryland, South Grimm, a bombastic former FBI agent raised more than $7 million. Voters will also pick Senate candidates in The British-led proposal, backed by France, Germany and the Carolina, Utah, Oklahoma and Mississip- known for once threatening to toss a television In Colorado, an establishment-backed states including Utah and Maryland. Analysts United States, was to be debated by roughly 140 countries at a pi will also select competitors for the Nov. reporter off a balcony, has attacked incumbent Democrat and a liberal insurgent are vying say Democrats face a steep climb trying to special session of the OPCW that started Tuesday. 6 elections, when Democrats will seek to Republican Representative Dan Donovan, to take on incumbent Republican Repre- take that chamber, as they are defending “Attribution goes beyond the mandate of the OPCW,” the wrest control of Congress from U.S. Pres- the borough’s former district attorney, for sentative Mike Coffman, whose district seats in states like Indiana, Montana and Russian delegation said on Twitter. “The decision to create such ident Donald Trump’s Republican Party. not sufficiently supporting Trump. favored Democrat Hillary Clinton over North Dakota that supported Trump two a mechanism within the OPCW cannot be made at the special Democrats need to flip 23 of 435 seats Donovan, who earned Trump’s endorse- Trump in 2016. years ago. session” being held in The Hague. to gain control of the House of Representa- ment in May, has responded by calling at- Jason Crow, an Iraq war veteran backed Former Republican presidential candi- The draft proposal, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, tives, which would stymie much of Trump’s tention to Grimm’s criminal conviction. by the national party, is facing Levi Tille- date Mitt Romney is expected to earn his would thrust the OPCW to the forefront of the diplomatic agenda while opening up new avenues of The district is considered within reach mann, who was endorsed by Our Revolution, party’s Senate nomination in Utah, while confrontation between the West and Moscow which has investigation into his administration. They for Democrats in November. a group born out of Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Chelsea Manning, who served seven years in seen relations deteriorate to their lowest point since the would have to net two seats to take the Sen- “They should have a reality show: ‘The presidential bid. Tillemann earned attention military prison for leaking classified data, is Cold War. ate, but face longer odds there, according Real Candidates of Staten Island,’” said this month with an anti-gun violence video a long shot in Maryland’s Democratic nom- Russia and Indonesia submitted rival proposals, but Western to analysts. Douglas Muzzio, a political science professor in which he blasted himself in the face with inating contest against incumbent Senator diplomats said they were not believed to have strong political Residents of New York City’s Staten Is- at Baruch College. “It’s nasty, it’s personal pepper spray. Ben Cardin. backing. land borough will decide whether to give – and it’s enjoyable to watch.” South Carolina’s Republican contest (Source: Reuters) (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 14 WORLD SPORTS JUNE 27, 2018 ‘I’m with Salah’: Fans urge Egyptian Manchester United face football star not to quit national team battle to keep record signing, arsenal set to sign $21m rated defender

Paul Pogba’s performances for Manchester United and France have been far from impressive but that has apparently not stopped Paris Saint-Germain from trying to lure the midfielder back to France. According to The Sun, the French champions have offered Marco Verratti plus cash to United in a bid to bring Pogba, who was born and raised in the outskirts of Paris, back to his home country. However, the tabloid says it remains unclear whether United would be prepared to part ways with its record signing. The Sun also reports Tottenham Hotspur has been priced out of a move for Anthony Martial, whose future at United remains shrouded in doubt. The Frenchman has been linked with a move away from Old Trafford but Spurs are understood to consider his $99.5 million price-tag as prohibitive. United could also come up against one of the players who knocked it out of the Champions League last season, as Arsenal “Feel the power of dream at is interested in signing Sevilla midfielder Ever Banega. The Spaniards are adamant the Argentine will not be allowed 2018 World Cup” to leave in the summer but the Independent reports Arsenal boss Unai Emery, who worked with Banega at Sevilla, remains keen Egyptian football fans are backing star player Mohamed criticism of the forward. team, and this is connected with his stay in the Chechen to bring the playmaker to the Premier League. Salah after it was revealed he is ready to quit the national The source told CNN the Liverpool star doesn’t wish to Republic, is simply a shameless lie.” Banega is said to be “considering his future after behind-the- team over his anger at being photographed with Chechen engage in topics beyond football or to be used for anyone’s Kadyrov’s press secretary stressed that during the entire scenes changes at Sevilla” and has a release clause of $23.2 million. leader Ramzan Kadyrov. political image. stay of the Egyptian national team in Grozny, Salah was in The Gunners are also looking to bolster their defensive options On Sunday it was revealed the Liverpool star was consid- Kadyrov, leader of Chechnya since 2004, has stifled any an “excellent mood.” and the Daily Mirror reports they are close to securing Borus- ering ending his international career over his disappointment form of dissent, subduing the separatist movement that In an email sent to CNN on Sunday, the Egyptian Foot- sia Dortmund defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos in a $21.2 at what has happened in Chechnya, where the team has been fought the Russian army for nearly two decades. ball Federation said it was surprised that Salah was ready million deal. based during the World Cup at Russia 2018, a source close Recently Kadyrov made Salah an honorary citizen of the to “quit the national team” and that the 26-year-old hadn’t Speaking to German newspaper Revier Sport, Dortmund chief to the forward told CNN. Chechen Republic. informed them of that intention. Michael Zorc admitted the defender was close to Arsenal but Football fans across Egypt reacted to the news of Salah’s There was also reaction from human rights groups to the “We were always informed by Salah when he takes any added the deal was yet to be finalized. potential decision by using the hashtag “I’m with Salah” and news that Salah could quit international football in protest decisions,” said the statement. A defender who will not join Arsenal is Lewis Dunk. The Daily backing his discomfort over becoming embroiled in politics. at being pictured with Kadyrov. “We spend the whole day together and he has never dis- Mirror says the Brighton centre-back had been linked with a Many supporters laid the blame at the feet of the Egyp- The director global initiatives at Human Rights Watch, cussed this issue with any of the delegation’s members.” move to north London when Arsene Wenger was still in charge tian Football Association and have begged that it stop using Minky Worden, tweeted: “Human Rights Watch warned “We are here in a sports event and we are following FIFA but has been told Emery has different plans. Salah for political means. @FIFAcom that Kadyrov was going to use hosting to wrap procedures, we don’t discuss politics, and if there is any Staying in the capital, the Telegraph claims Chelsea will not Kadyrov has been widely condemned for human rights himself in FIFA flag+bring ignominy to the #WorldCup? ? political discussion, it should be directed to FIFA.” sell Ruben Loftus-Cheek even if his value increases after the abuses and the persecution of the LGBT community in by “sportswashing” Chechnya abuses+anti-LGBT purge.” Egypt’s final World Cup game was against Saudi Arabia on World Cup. Chechnya. Alvi Karimov, press secretary for the Chechen leader, Monday. Salah gave Egypt the lead, but a late stoppage-time The midfielder, who made his full debut in the tournament According to the source, the player felt exposed after being told Russian newspaper Kommersant: “These words that goal enabled Saudi Arabia to win 2-1. on Sunday as England thrashed Panama 6-1, has impressed for photographed walking beside Kadyrov, an incident which there is discord, confusion and vacillation in the Egyptian (Source: CNN) the national side but might still not be granted a first team spot became a major talking point at the World Cup, leading to national team, that Mohamed Salah is going to leave the at Stamford Bridge. Everton, West Ham and Crystal Palace—for whom he played on loan last season—are keen to sign the 22-year-old but Chelsea Sergio Ramos admits Spain must improve after World Cup reality check will only allow him to leave on loan. Sergio Ramos described it as a “reality” and have a defence that’s solid, that transmits a Meanwhile, the Daily Express believes former Blues star Gi- it was a troubling one. “We like to be honest, sense of security, and decisiveness, then it’s anfranco Zola will follow Maurizio Sarri to Chelsea as a part of not to hide anything, to tell the truth,” Spain’s much more complicated for the other team to the new manager’s backroom staff and that Thibaut Courtois captain said, “and we have to say that this is play against us. We hope we can find our level.” will remain at Stamford Bridge next season. not the path.” Actually, the path is shaping While Spain’s players have been careful Elsewhere, Wayne Rooney’s long-awaited move to Majoe up to be a good one, two injury-time goals, to draw a line under the dramatic unfold- League Soccer appears to be finally reaching the finish line, as one in each game in Group B, meaning ing of events on the eve of the tournament the Daily Mail reports England’s all-time record goalscorer will Spain’s possible run to the final is likely to when the coach Julen Lopetegui was sacked, head to the U.S. this week to finalize a deal ahead of a switch to read something like Russia-Croatia-England the upheaval cannot have helped. Ramos, D.C. United. rather than Uruguay-France-Brazil/Germany. though, said that was “no excuse” as it is still (Source: Newsweek) But Ramos knows that the problem is not the “same players” and, asked whether Spain their opponents, it is Spain themselves. He could win the World Cup, he replied: “I think admitted that the 2010 champions will have so, of course. In South Africa we won it and to improve to reach the final. against Chile we [had] suffered terribly. Now Fortunate to qualify for the last 16 in the good bit starts. Any mistake and you’re first place, Spain have conceded five goals out. The level of demand and concentration Egyptian commentator dies at the World Cup – three against Portugal, easier half of the draw. “We would have all got wrong and we have to stop that.” has to go up. two against Morocco – and it might have signed up for this, going through in first, Ramos added: “We have to win and also “We have to get back to that routine of three after watching his country been more had Iran taken their chances in but it’s true that there are good games and give a different account of ourselves, but or four games ago when we were letting in the second game in Kazan. In their fragility, bad games,” Aspas said. “We would have winning is the most important thing. There very few goals,” Ramos continued. “Hopefully lose to Saudi Arabia Spain look very different to the team who been happy to have gone through, although are loads of things to improve; it wasn’t a we can leave this group stage behind and went through the knockout rounds of Euro maybe not with this uncertainty. But we’re good game at all. We have to correct things. impose the football that everyone knows is 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 through. Now, it’s life and death games and You can allow those mistakes in the group ours, and expects of us. An Egyptian commentator died after reportedly suffering a heart without conceding. “I have told the players that’s where we have to see the great team stage when maybe you have some margin “Opportunities always arise out of prob- attack shortly after his country lost its final World Cup game that five goals conceded in two games is not we are.” for error, but we have to sort it out. Now any lems, chances to improve. In that sense I think against Saudi Arabia on Monday. the way: in this game we did all the good The problem is that Spain have not looked detail can see you knocked out so we have that whatever may have happened, those things Multiple sources reported Abdel Rahim Mohamed fell ill at things and all the bad things too,” said the like a great team, certainly not defensively. to be very careful. When you let in goals, that people think maybe destabilise us or cause the headquarters of the Egyptian state television, where he was coach, Fernando Hierro. If Andrés Iniesta and Isco shone at one end, people point at the defence but we have to doubts can actually serve to make us stronger scheduled to provide commentary on Egypt’s game on the Nile That was a message they made their own. at the other they looked vulnerable, easily be calm, improve at every point of the pitch and more united and be even clearer about Sports channel. Iago Aspas’s brilliant backheel, eventually opened up and suffering from a striking lack and look at it as a team and individually, our objectives. We’re a national team that Colleagues rushed him to a medical care department in the granted by VAR almost three minutes after of assuredness. “We have to improve,” Thiago myself first of all. We have to make sure it can aspire to win the World Cup but to do building, before then taking him to the French Qasr Al-Aini the linesman’s flag had been raised, secured Alcántara said. “We know that five goals is a doesn’t happen again. that we have to focus, commit fewer mistakes Hospital, where doctors attempted to resuscitate him for over a late equaliser for Spain that lifted them into lot, too many, and we have to change that. We “This is an important warning. We have to and play the way we know.” half an hour. first place and put them in the theoretically did some things well but there are details we make this a turning point because when you (Source: The Guardian) However, despite their efforts, Mohamed, who had played for and coached Egyptian side Zamalek FC, was pronounced dead shortly afterward. Ahmad Taha, the head of the hospital, ‘Long way to go,’ says Brit after regaining championship lead at French GP was quoted by news website Masrawy as saying that Mohamed He regained his position at the top of the Formula handed out to Vettel and Bottas that saw the pair relegated had died of cardiac arrest. One world championship, but Lewis Hamilton isn’t to the back of the grid at the start of the race. According to Egyptian newspaper El Watan, former goalkeeper getting ahead of himself after victory at the French “I think my start was good, perhaps even too good,” Ahmed Fawzi, who was in the studio with Mohamed, reported Grand Prix. said Vettel, who suffered his worst result since the Chinese his colleague had looked “exhausted” and deeply “affected” af- The four-time champion led from the start of the race, GP in April. ter Egypt suffered a third consecutive defeat at the World Cup. capitalizing on a collision between his teammate Valtteri “I found myself very close to Lewis in front and, when The Pharaohs had taken a 1-0 lead against Saudi Arabia in Bottas and Sebastian Vettel that ultimately saw his Ferrari I tried to brake, I had absolutely no grip and there wasn’t Volgograd thanks to Mohamed Salah’s second goal of the tour- rival finish fifth and concede a 14-point lead at the top of much space where I could go.” nament — the first goal from open play Egypt had scored at the the standings after eight races. “Fortunately, we could continue racing. We had a good World Cup since 1934. “I feel very grateful for a solid weekend,” said Hamilton car in the race, but the outcome was not what we wanted. The Liverpool striker did not celebrate his goal, fueling spec- after his victory at the Circuit Paul Ricard, the first French It was my fault, but now let’s move on and think about the ulation he could still quit the national team over a political row. GP in 10 years. next weekend”. Last season’s Premier League top scorer was initially omitted “My guys [Mercedes], I’ve been with them for six years The upcoming weeks see a busy period in the F1 calendar from the starting XI before appearing in the team in a revised and they are just continuously pushing the boundaries and for the Mercedes driver, who has won the championship which could prove crucial in deciding the destination of version of the line-up. never giving up, so I’m just forever grateful for all their work, in three of the last four years. It will come as a relief after a the championship. The goal meant Egypt led a World Cup for the first time in its here at the track and back at the factory.” mixed start to the year and a disappointing race in Canada It’s set to be F1’s first ever triple header as the drivers history and the advantage was preserved when Essam El Hadary “But there’s a long way to go and we’ll keep approaching a fortnight ago. compete in this weekend’s Austrian GP before heading to saved Fahad Al Muwallad’s penalty shortly before the end of the rest of the season like we approached today.” Hamilton, who held off Red Bull’s Max Verstappen Silverstone for the British GP. the first half. Victory in the south of France was the third of the season throughout the race, profited thanks to a five-second penalty (Source: CNN) At 45 years and 161 days, the Egyptian keeper became the oldest player to feature in a World Cup game, beating the record held by another goalkeeper, Colombia’s Faryd Mondragon. The Colombian played against Japan at the 2014 World Cup, just ‘You cannot be serious’: IBM taps emotions for Wimbledon highlights three days after his 43rd birthday. John McEnroe, known for his on-court with an analysis of crowd noise, players’ in on in the highlights package,” he said in Wimbledon was an early adopter of AI, However, El-Hadari could do nothing about Salman Al Faraj’s outbursts, would be in his element at next movements and match data. an interview. He said the AI platform also Seddon said, and had widened its uses since spot-kick on the stroke of halftime and was then beaten a second month’s Wimbledon tennis tournament, IBM’s Sam Seddon said the company was analyzed noise from the thousands of spec- it was first deployed in 2015. time, when Salem Al Dawsari scored deep into injury time to give where every fist-pump of elation and cry using machine learning to trying to find those tators who attend the annual tournament This year for example, he said, IBM’s the Saudis a first World Cup win since 1994. of angst will be analyzed by artificial intel- seconds when players had a heightened sense in south-west London. “We are listening Watson AI technology will power a Wim- The 2-1 defeat means Egypt’s first World Cup appearance since ligence to compile video highlights. of emotion after an exciting shot or rally. for the volume of the crowd - if you have bledon chatbot service, delivered within 1990 ended with three defeats and the African nation is yet to win The All England Lawn Tennis Club and “If you’ve got the visual element from got a fantastic rally that noise levels will go Facebook Messenger, that will allow fans its first game at soccer’s major tournament, having drawn two its technology partner IBM said the Watson the player, and you know that it’s a tight up and down during that point,” he said. access to tailored information on scores, and lost five of the seven games it played over three World Cups. AI platform had been taught to recognize pressure point in the match, then those are “When that is happening, we flag it as news and players. (Source: Newsweek) players’ emotions, which it would combine the points that you are going to really target particularly interesting.” (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y JUNE 27, 2018 SPORTS 15

Iran say goodbye to World Cup: Brave Iran 2018 World Cup snatches draw against Portugal TASNIM — The Iranian national football team finished third in the 2018 World Cup “Group of Death” with four points. Carlos Queiroz’s side, who beat Morocco 1-0 and suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat to Spain, drew 1-1 with Cristiano Ronaldo-spir- ited Portugal at the Mordovia Arena on Monday.

In the last minute of the first half, Portugal broke through in style as Ricardo Quaresma made his way to the edge of the area and curled a stunning effort into the corner with the outside of his boot. In the 53rd minute, a penalty was awarded to Portugal by video assistant referee (VAR) but Alireza Beiranvand saved Cristiano “80 Million People, Ronaldo’s kick. Another VAR review, this time for a challenge by Ronaldo on One Nation, One Heartbeat” Morteza Pouraliganji, ended in a booking for the Portugal captain. Substitution Karim Ansarifard found the back of the net from By Masoud Hossein The 34-year-old’s right-footed shot, which came off after elbowing Morteza Pouraliganji. the penalty spot in the stoppage time after VAR review showed a give-and-go with Adrien Silva, curled the ball past Iran were awarded a penalty kick after a VAR review that Portugal’s Cedric Soares committed a handball in the area. SARANSK, Russia — Iran national football team failed goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand. determined that Portugal’s Cedric Soares committed a Spain was hold to a 2-2 draw by Morocco but advanced to the to advance to the 2018 World Cup next stage, however Eight minutes into the second half, Cristiano Ronaldo handball in the box in the stoppage time. next stage as the winner. Team Melli wrote history by earning four points for the could have scored his tournament’s fifth goal with a Karim Ansarifard, who came off the bench, drilled Portugal finished second in the group and will face Group A first time in the World Cup finals. penalty which was awarded Portugal by video assistant the penalty into the upper right corner of the goal. champion Uruguay next on Saturday in Sochi. Iran finished 1-1 with UEFA champions Portugal at referee (VAR). Mehdi Taremi could score Iran’s second goal but Spain will play host Russia. the Mordovia Arena on Monday. Beiranvand saved Ronaldo’s penalty to deny a Por- he missed his outstanding chance in front of the goal. Iran, who had a brilliant performance against tugal 2-0 lead. Spain’s 2-2 draw against Morocco means Portugal Spain at Kazan Arena on Wednesday, did not allow Soon after, Iran put Portugal under pressure and finished second in Group B and will face Group A cham- Portugal to break through until the 45th minute could have equalized the match but sub Saman Ghoddos pions Uruguay next on Saturday in Sochi. Team Melli end World Cup when Ricardo Quaresma broke the deadlock with but his shot went inches wide of the post. Spain won the group, while Iran and Morocco are a stunning goal. In the 83rd minute, Ronaldo received a yellow card headed home. campaign on a high note

1 For the people of Iran, football is more than a game. It is an Iran’s Carlos Queiroz berates Fifa over Portugal survives scare against Iran to intimate, mesmerizing love affair. The passion with which Iranians Cristiano Ronaldo VAR escape make knockouts follow the game and support their national team, despite heavy odds, is remarkable and inspiring. Team Melli has come a long way since it participated in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Today, many of the national team members like Sardar Azmoun, Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Karim Ansarifard, Kaveh Rezaei and Saman Ghoddos play in big football leagues across the world. They all played tremendously well in this World Cup and their fans must be mighty proud of them. One man who made it all possible and who clearly stole the lime- light in Russia and before that in World Cup qualifying matches is Iran’s gallant goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand. His life story is the stuff dreams are made of. As a young teenager, his father attempted to dissuade him from football, so he decided to run away from his home, to chase a dream. He was homeless for years, sleeping rough outside football grounds, and in shops where he worked. He finally made it to the national team. Two nights ago, when Beiranvand valiantly blocked a penalty from Christiano Ronaldo, he became the darling of football world. His story and pictures were widely circulated on social media, and praise for him came from all corners of the world. The sight of Beiranvand blocking his ferocious shot and then holding the ball close to his chest will haunt the Portuguese star An angry Carlos Queiroz lashed out at Fifa Queiroz suggested Iran should have had Sudipto Ganguly second position in the group behind Spain. and the VAR system after his Iran team’s 1-1 “at least one more penalty” for a series A minute later Team Melli came close for a long time. Those visuals, on the other hand, would always warm the hearts of Iranian football fans and continuously remind draw with Portugal and elimination from of second-half incidents in the Portugal SARANSK, Russia (Reuters) — Portu- to sealing their first spot in the last 16 and them of how dreams are stitched, chased and translated into the World Cup, suggesting the referee could box. But the most contentious decision of gal came perilously close to a group stage knocking out their much-fancied oppo- reality. Now, it is time to chase a bigger dream – of progressing have received instructions not to send off the night was the long wait as the referee exit from the World Cup during a frenetic nents but Mehdi Taremi could only hit the beyond round one and winning the World Cup. What seems Cristiano Ronaldo during a VAR review reviewed footage of an elbow from Ron- stoppage-time period on Monday when side-netting from close range. impossible today would be a reality tomorrow. for an elbow late in the game. aldo on Morteza Pouraliganji. There was unfancied Iran equalized through a penalty “We have achieved our goal and now “You stop the game for VAR, there is an apparent intent but weak contact and in and almost scored a winner after Cristiano we have to recover over the next few days elbow. Elbow. Elbow is a red card in the the end the referee gave a yellow. Ronaldo had earlier missed from the spot. to think about the next match,” Quaresma rules, the rules doesn’t say if it’s Messi or “My players, they deserve a little bit The European champions held on to told reporters. Ronaldo,” said Iran’s Portuguese coach of more respect, the Iranian fans deserve advance to the round of 16 from Group B “Now we have to continue with this mind- It’s not just Ronaldo playing the incident that floored Morteza Poura- a little bit more respect,” said Queiroz. behind Spain but would now have to take set of winning and wait for the next match.” Iran, Portuguese coach says liganji. He implied the referee could have “There’s no room for human mistakes, on a much tougher opposition in Group Caceres consulted with VAR to award been told to be lenient because Ronaldo human mistakes was before, we accept A toppers Uruguay in Sochi on Saturday. Portugal a penalty for Morteza Pourali- is such a big name: “I don’t know if it was that. Players make mistakes, coaches The 1-1 draw, after a stunning Ricardo ganji’s foul on Ronaldo, Europe’s highest By Angus MacSwan this but we have the right to know,” he said. make mistakes and referees make mis- Quaresma strike was canceled out by Iran’s international goalscorer, amid vociferous He suggested that for VAR to work takes. But now you have one system that Karim Ansarifard, meant Portugal finished protests from the Iranians and their nu- SARANSK, Russia (Reuters) - Portugal coach Fernando Santos properly, coaches and fans should be able cost a fortune, high technology, five or six tied on five points with Spain, who drew merous supporters at the Mordovia Arena. has dismissed the suggestion that his team relied too much on to hear the communication between the people inside, whatever, nobody takes 2-2 against Morocco to top the group by The Real Madrid forward, however, Cristiano Ronaldo and said they worked hard to function as a referee and the video assistants, as in rugby, responsibility.” scoring more goals. failed to convert, also losing the chance unit as they prepared to face Iran in their decisive World Cup addressing his idea to Gianni Infantino, Portugal’s coach, Fernando Santos, said Spain will next meet hosts Russia at to tie England’s Harry Kane at the top of the Group B match on Monday. the Fifa president. he had not seen footage of the Ronaldo Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on Sunday. scorers’ list on five goals. He later escaped Santos also played down the notion that the European cham- “We don’t know if it was the referee elbow incident: “I’d have to watch it again Portugal were left to rue the missed a red card after the referee consulted VAR pions would coast to a win against the Middle Eastern side. or the guys upstairs [who decided]. This to talk about it but I think the VAR did its penalty by their most prolific scorer in the and showed him a yellow for elbowing an Portugal and Spain, who take on already-ousted Morocco, are on game belongs to the people not to a couple job and that’s what we have to accept.” 53rd minute after Iran goalkeeper Alireza opposition player. four points and need a draw from their respective matches to guar- of guys behind the scenes. My suggestion, After the match Ronaldo, who would Beiranvand pulled off a heroic save to deny Well organized antee progress. But a tenacious and ambitious Iran, masterminded Mr Infantino, they have to put up their have gone level with England’s Harry Kane them a 2-0 lead. Iran were well organized at the back by former Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz, can still go through if they hand and say: ‘Sorry, VAR is not working on five goals as the tournament’s top scorer On the stroke of halftime, Quaresma, and defended stoically but did not have win, a feat that is not beyond them if they play as they did in their so we have to stop it,’ or the communication had he scored the penalty, headed straight making his World Cup debut at the age enough men going forward in the first half. narrow 1-0 defeat at the hands of former world champions Spain. must be clear like rugby, when everybody for the tunnel and did not come out to rejoin of 34, played a one-two with Adrien Silva Carlos Queiroz’s men relied mostly on coun- Portugal have relied heavily on Ronaldo so far in Russia. He knows what is going on.” the rest of Portugal’s players. Santos said: to cut in from the right flank and curled ter attacks and while forward Sardar Azmoun has scored all of their four goals, including a hat-trick in the The Paraguayan referee, Enrique “The best players in the world face that the ball past the outstretched hands of showed plenty of glimpses of his talent, it was 3-3 draw against Spain. Ronaldo’s goal against Morocco made Cáceres, stopped the game three times when there isn’t an opportunity to really Beiranvand with the outside of his boot. not enough to trouble the Portuguese. him Europe’s all-time leading scorer in international matches. for VAR reviews in the Group B decider, make it happen that hurts a lot, more for Iran equalized late on after Paraguayan “It’s such a big disappointment for us,” Iran coach Queiroz, who worked with him at Manchester awarding one penalty to each side, in- them than for other players, they want to referee Enrique Caceres used the video assistant Iran midfielder Alireza Jahanbakhsh said. United and with the national team, has called Portugal “Cristiano cluding a dubious late Iran penalty that win always, they want to be the best, they referee (VAR) system to rule that Portugal’s “We had a big chance at the end of the Rolando and a group of players who run after him”. levelled the scores and a penalty earlier refuse to fail and when they fail they get Cedric Soares had handled the ball in the box. game, we could have scored and won it. As Santos said he was not concerned by Queiroz’s knowledge for Portugal that Ronaldo saw saved by very upset.” Ansarifard converted the resulting pen- everyone has seen, we did our best to win of Ronaldo and believed the team functioned as a whole unit. the Iranian goalkeeper. (Source: The Guardian) alty to level the score, pushing Portugal to this game but we missed some chances.” “It has been shown very clearly that this is Portugal against Iran. It is not the coaches that are going to be playing and it is not Cristiano Ronaldo playing against someone. It is the team who are going to be playing Iran,” he told a news conference. South Pars ranks 1st in Iran’s International Pars Cup Wushu Championships Despite collecting four points, Portugal have struggled to hit Press TV — Iranian wushu club South Pars has clinched land in the third spot. pling techniques. peak form so far in Russia and their performances have been title at the seventh edition of International Pars Cup Wushu The seventh edition of International Pars Cup Wushu Athletes were in action in Changquan, Nanquan, Tai- dogged rather than beautiful, Ronaldo’s perfectly placed late Championships, which were held in Iran’s northeastern Championships kicked off in Gorgan, Iran, on June 23 and jiquan, Daoshu, Jianshu, Chiangshu, Gunshu, Nanquan free kick which earned them a draw with Spain notwithstanding. province of Golestan. finished on June 25, 2018. and Taijijian forms of Taolu. Santos praised Iran as “the best team in Asia” and predicted On Sunday and the final day of the contests at Imam The international tournament brought together dozens Nanquan usually requires less flexibility and has fewer a tricky encounter in Saransk. Khomeini Sports Hall in Gorgan, located approximately of coaches and competitors from Afghanistan, Armenia, acrobatics than Changquan, but it also requires greater “This (Iran) are a very strong team, well-organized with good 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of the capital Tehran, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, leg stability and power generation through leg and hip experienced players. They are beautifully organized defensively South Pars took the top honor, having collected fourteen Sweden and Vietnam. coordination. but not only that. They are good on the counter-attack,” he said. gold, four silver and one bronze medals. The tournament was divided into two competition cat- Jianshu is a form of Taolu, where the participant uses “It’s going to be a fascinating game. I think Portugal will move on Golestan finished in the second place with five gold, egories of Taolu and Sanda. a sword as the main element of the routine. to the Round of 16 but it’s going to be a hard-fought battle,” he said. eight silver and one bronze medals. Sanda, sometimes called Sanshou or Lei tai, has all the Gunshu is a form of wushu where the participant uses “We are going to try to prove on the pitch we have the quality India received three silver and one bronze medals to combat aspects of wushu, but includes many more grap- a staff as the main element of the routine. to beat Iran but there are many difficulties.” Prayer Times Noon:13:07 Evening: 20:45 Dawn: 4:04 (tomorrow) Sunrise: 5:51 (tomorrow) JUNE 27, 2018 ART&CULTURE I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y www.tehrantimes.com Managing Director: Ali Asgari Editor-in-Chief: Mohammad Ghaderi Avaye Mahan Choir to perform European, Editorial Dept.: Fax: (+98 21) 88808214 — 88808895 [email protected] Switchboard Operator: Tel: (+98 21) 43051000 Advertisements Dept.: Telefax: (+98 21) 43051450 American golden oldies in Tehran Public Relations Office: Tel: (+98 21) 88805807 Subscription & Distribution Dept.: Tel: (+98 21) 43051603 www.eshterak.ir Distributor: Padideh Novin Co. ARTTEHRAN – The Tel: 88911433 desk Webmaster: [email protected] Avaye Mahan Choir Printed at: Rooztab - ISSN: 1017-94 plans again to perform a number of greatest hits recorded by European and American No. 18, Bimeh Alley, Nejatollahi St., Tehran, Iran singers and bands from the 1950s to the P.o. Box: 14155-4843 Zip Code: 1599814713 1980s during three concerts in Tehran. The concerts, each of which has a different repertoire, will be held at Vahdat Hall from July 2 to 4, the Farabi Foundation announced on Tuesday. A choir composed of 25 vocalists, an orchestra with stringed instruments, a group of bronze wind instruments, and a pop orchestra will accompany Avaye Mahan during the performances. Songs by American singers Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and Ray Charles will be presented during the concerts. Iranian culture minister The group also include some songs from English rock group the Beatles and Abbas Salehi visits Azerbaijan Euro-Caribbean vocal group Boney M. in their repertoire. CULTURE TEHRAN – The Iranian Minister of Culture desk Songs by Italian singer Albano Carrisi, and Islamic Guidance, Abbas Salehi, arrived American-French singer Joe Dassin and in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku on Tuesday to attend an Swedish pop group ABBA have also been Iranian cultural festival. selected for the repertoire. All performers will be in period costume during the concerts. “We intend to elevate the standards of the aural culture of our society and audience by new, rich repertoires and powerful arrangements, and also to amaze them Nima Fatehi conducts the Avaye Mahan Choir during a concert at Tehran’s Rudaki Hall on September 30, 2016. by special visual effects at the concerts,” Avaye Mahan conductor Nima Fatehi said. performed a similar concert in Tehran performances at Iranian and international Al Mar International Choir Festival in The Avaye Mahan Choir, which in January 2016, has given numerous events. The group won awards at the Canta Barcelona in October 2015.

Iran, Malaysian institute sign Three Iranian cineastes among MOU on book translation film academy invitees

Iranian culture minister Abbas Salehi in an undated photo (Cinemapress.ir/Zohreh Dehqani) He visited Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev a few hours after his arrival in the country. He is scheduled to hold meetings with a number of Azerbaijani officials and also visit several cultural centers in the country. Iran’s National Orchestra will perform two concerts in Baku and the other Azerbaijani city of Ganja during the five-day cultural festival, which will begin today. An Iranian theater troupe will also give several performances during the festival.

River Film Festival review Iranian cinema Iran’s Cultural Attaché Ali-Mohammad Sabeqi (L) and the director of the Malaysian Oscar statues dry in the sunlight after receiving a fresh coat of gold paint as prepara- ARTTEHRAN – A selection of short films are National Institute of Translation Mohd Khair Ngadiron sign MOU. tions begin for the 89th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, U.S., February deskbeing screened in the “Iran, Country in 22, 2017. (Reuters/Mike Blake) Focus”, a section dedicated to Iranian films at the 12th ARTTEHRAN – Iran’s be translated. desk River Film Festival, which opened June 15 in the Italian Cultural Office in the The Malaysian institute also agreed ARTTEHRAN – The Dave Chappelle. desk city of Padova. Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur and the to republish at a lower price Persian poet Academy of Motion If all those invited accept, female Malaysian National Institute of Translation Jalal ad-Din Rumi’s masterpiece Masnavi- Picture Arts and Sciences has picked three membership would rise to 31 percent have signed a memorandum of understanding ye Manavi, which was already translated Iranian cineastes to join the organization as from the current 28 percent, and people (MOU). into Malay. the Academy has invited 928 new members of color will increase from 13 percent to The MOU was inked on Monday by Moreover, works by five Iranian authors from 59 countries. 16 percent. Iranian cultural attaché Ali-Mohammad and five Malaysian writers will be translated “Sara and Aida,” and “The Salesman” Total membership would stand at Sabeqi and the director of the institute, based the MOU, which will run for five years. cinematographer Hossein Jafarian, as more than 7,000 actors, writers, directors, Mohd Khair Ngadiron, the Persian service A selection of works by Hamzah Fansuri, well as Ali Asgari and Farnush Samadi, executives and others. of IRNA reported on Tuesday. the 16th century Malay writer and poet, has the co-directors of “The Silence” and “The In 2017, the Academy picked eight Based on the MOU, a selection of been translated into Persian by Amir-Hossein Gaze” are the invitees from Iran this year, Iranian cineastes including filmmaker acclaimed Persian literary works will be Zekrgu. the Academy announced in a statement Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, actor Leila translated into the Malay language and several The book has been released in Persian published on June 25. Hatami, film editor Hayedeh Safiyari, works selected from the Malay literature by Miras-e Maktub Institute in Tehran in The new members range from stars like sound engineer Mohammadreza Delpak will be rendered into Persian. collaboration with the Malaysian National “Girls Trip” star Tiffany Haddish, “The and producer Hengameh Panahi. The divan of Persian poet Parvin Institute of Translation and is due to be Big Sick” co-writers Kumail Nanjiani and Legendary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami Etesami (1907-1941) is one of the works to unveiled in Malaysia on July 31. Emily V. Gordon, and comedian and actor was among the list of the invitees in 2016.

A scene from “Manicure” by Arman Fayyaz Banksy paints Paris with murals Russell Crowe will play Roger The “Iran, Country in Focus” section screens “Ara” by about immigration Ailes in new Showtime biopic Yousef Kargar, “Retouch” by Kaveh Mazaheri, “Neither You Nor Me” by Sepideh Mirhosseini,“Dive” by Hossein Darabi, PARIS (Reuters) — Banksy has painted LOS ANGELES (AP) — Russell Crowe “Autumn Leaves” by Mehdi Fard Qaderi, “Peshdar Dog” by walls in Paris with murals on the theme will portray Roger Ailes in a new Showtime Alireza Mohammadian and “Manicure” by Arman Fayaz. of migration - a political act by the “hit- series about the late Fox News Channel In other sections the animation “Run Rustam Run” by and-run” graffiti artist as governments founder. Hossein Molayemi, documentary “Khoshbakhti” by Kuros row over how to treat people fleeing to The eight-episode limited series is based Samanian, and extreme shorts “Duel”, “Mother” and “Reporter” Europe. on the 2014 book “The Loudest Voice In by Mohammadreza Kheradmandan, as well as “Simple as The works are believed to have start- the Room” by Gabriel Sherman. That” and “Wirelephant” by Saman Ghanayemi, and “The ed to appear as early as last Wednesday, Sherman’s book chronicles the rise and Last Embrace” by Saman Hosseinpur will be screened. U.N.-designated World Refugee Day, and fall of the media mogul who shook up the “Siyamo” by Mahmudreza Sani will be screened on the some have already been vandalized. American political news landscape. One mural, on a street in northern Paris No air date was announced for the closing day on June 30. 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